Cruise vs Boating - What's the difference?
cruise | boating |
A sea or lake voyage, especially one taken for pleasure.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.}}
(lb) To sail about, especially for pleasure.
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*:He and Gerald usually challenged the rollers in a sponson canoe when Gerald was there for the weekend; or, when Lansing came down, the two took long swims seaward or cruised about in Gerald's dory, clad in their swimming-suits; and Selwyn's youth became renewed in a manner almost ridiculous,.
(lb) To travel at constant speed for maximum operating efficiency.
(lb) To move about an area leisurely in the hope of discovering something, or looking for custom.
To actively seek a romantic partner or casual sexual partner by moving about a particular area; to troll.
To walk while holding on to an object (stage in development of ambulation, typically occurring at 10 months).
To win easily and convincingly.
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the activity of going out onto a body of water in a boat
* 1853 , Charlotte Mary Yonge, The Heir of Redclyffe (volume 1, page 95)
(historical) In Persia, a punishment of capital offenders, by laying them on the back in a covered boat, where they are left to perish.
As a proper noun cruise
is .As a noun boating is
the activity of going out onto a body of water in a boat.As a verb boating is
.cruise
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Alternative forms
* cruizeNoun
(en noun)Derived terms
* cruise control * cruise missile * cruise ship * cruiser * cruisey/cruisy * cruisewear * pleasure cruiseVerb
(cruis)Derived terms
*Anagrams
* ----boating
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Noun
- I like nothing better than to hear of your ridings, and shootings, and boatings .