pleasure craft
noun
a boat used for recreation rather than for work.
pleasure crafts
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pluralof pleasure craft.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Heitke said smugglers are using a range of watercraft, including local wooden fishing boats known as pangas, pleasure crafts and even jet skis.
From Reuters ● Aug. 20, 2021
These islands are fringed by massive luxury pleasure crafts and more ordinary floating vessels, making it a boater’s haven.
From US News ● Mar. 17, 2015
As soon as they found they had no orders for large boats, they changed their plants to make small pleasure crafts.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is very humiliating to American pride—after winning the international prizes, and boasting so inordinately, to find out that we are only about—how many centuries, Leo?—twenty-five centuries behind Syracuse in building pleasure crafts.
From At the Mercy of Tiberius by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans
But lesser boats, and especially light pleasure crafts like the Tortoise do well to lie snug at their moorings till the southeasterly wind has spent its strength.
From Priscilla's Spies by George A. Birmingham
