pleasure craft
idiom
: boats used for pleasure rather than work
We saw many fishing boats and pleasure craft on the bay.
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Most winters, the firm houses more than 5,000 boats and marine pleasure craft.
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Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 9 Feb. 2026
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
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Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 9 Feb. 2026
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
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“Pleasure craft.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pleasure%20craft. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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