User Contributed Dictionary
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -uːzɪŋ
Verb
cruising- present participle of cruise
Noun
- The action of the verb to cruise.
- Cruising is a popular activity among the over-60s.
Extensive Definition
Cruising may mean:
- Cruising (driving), driving around for social purposes, especially by teenagers
- Cruise (flight), in aviation
- Cruising (maritime), leisurely travel by boat, yacht, or cruise ship
- Cruising
for sex, the process of searching in public places for sexual
partners, especially by gay men
- Cruising (film), a 1980 film starring Al Pacino
- Cruising (novel), the 1970 novel upon which the 1980 film is based
- Cruising, a motor milestone for infants where they can walk by holding onto something and they make the transition to being a toddler
cruising in Dutch: Cruising
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
aeronautics, air service,
airline, astronautics, aviation, ballooning, blind flying,
boating, canoeing, circumnavigation,
cloud-seeding, coasting, commercial aviation,
contact flying, flight,
flying, general aviation,
gliding, gunkholing, motorboating, navigability, navigating, navigation, passage-making,
periplus, pilotage, rowing, sailing, sailplaning, sculling, sea travel, seafaring, soaring, steaming, travel by water,
voyaging, water travel,
winging, yachting