pleasure craft

idiom

: boats used for pleasure rather than work

We saw many fishing boats and pleasure craft on the bay.

Examples of pleasure craft in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Last Monday, a crew aboard a Coast Guard boat that is part of the Maritime Safety and Security Team in Los Angeles/Long Beach interdicted five people aboard a 20-foot pleasure craft, approximately 4 miles southwest of Point Loma. —Philip Diehl, Mercury News, 16 June 2025

The second incident occurred around 2:40 p.m. when a Coast Guard crew did a routine security boarding on a 20-foot pleasure craft 2 miles south of Point Loma. —Alexandra Mendoza, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 May 2025

The Perry who happily hopped aboard a billionaire’s galactic pleasure craft is the Perry who’s friends with the toilet, is the Perry who sings about feeling like a plastic bag and living in a woman’s world, is the Perry who showed up to the Met Gala dressed like a hamburger. —Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2025

Strong currents and large debris can threaten pleasure craft safety during high flows. —Daniel McFadin, arkansasonline.com, 27 Dec. 2024

Rhymes for pleasure craft

• antiaircraft
• choreographed
• chromatographed
• mimeographed
• abaft
• aircraft
• camshaft
• crankshaft
• downdraft
• engraft
• priestcraft
• redraft