cruiser
French, noun/kʁu.zœʁ/
cruiser is spelled C-R-U-I-S-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 49,558th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cruiser is a French masculine noun meaning “cruiser (bicycle designed for low-speed, recreational use)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Synonyme de beach cruiser”.
What does cruiser mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecruiser (bicycle designed for low-speed, recreational use)
verb
- 1
colloquialto hit on; to make a pass at
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Synonyme de beach cruiser. 2. Bateau de guerre rapide.
verb: 1. Faire la cour (à une personne) dans le but de séduire ou d’obtenir des faveurs.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of cruiser
- cruisers plural
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- cruisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- cruisé participle past
- cruise first-person indicative present
- cruises indicative present second-person
- cruisons first-person indicative plural
- cruisez indicative plural present
- cruisent indicative plural present
- cruisais first-person imperfect indicative
- cruisait imperfect indicative singular
- cruisions first-person imperfect indicative
- cruisiez imperfect indicative plural
- cruisaient imperfect indicative plural
- cruisai first-person historic indicative
- cruisas historic indicative past
- cruisa historic indicative past
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cruiser?
- /kʁu.zœʁ/
- /kʁu.ze/
- \kʁu.zœʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cruiser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cruiser in French?
cruiser appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).