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A floating city where you pay to be trapped at a buffet with strangers.
means To travel smoothly and at a relaxed, steady pace — by ship, car, or otherwise — often for leisure or with no urgent destination.
from From the Dutch 'kruisen,' meaning 'to cross' — itself rooted in 'kruis,' 'cross' (a cousin of Latin 'crux'). The idea was a ship crossing and re-crossing a patch of sea, looping rather than aiming straight, which is why early 'cruisers' were vessels that patrolled or roamed. English borrowed the word in the 17th century, and over time the sense of leisurely, purposeless roaming drifted from the waves to the open road.
- morgue onboard
- Large ships carry coolers for dying passengers
- trash sea
- Cruises once dumped waste straight into the ocean
- steel scale
- Biggest ships weigh over 200,000 tons
- crew nations
- Staff often hail from 50-plus countries
- norovirus famous
- Outbreaks make headlines almost every season
carnival cruise line — world's largest cruise company by passenger capacity, operates 27 ships as of 2024
royal caribbean — second-largest cruise operator, owns 27 ships including icon of the seas launched in 2024
tom cruise — actor famous for mission impossible franchise, born 1962
cruise missile — guided missile that flies at low altitude, used by military since 1991 gulf war