Wiktionary
n. A motorboat used for recreational activities, such as sport fishing or touring.
WordNet
n. a large motorboat that has a cabin and plumbing and other conveniences necessary for living on board [syn: cabin cruiser, cruiser, pleasure boat]
Wikipedia
A pleasure craft (or pleasure boat) is a boat used for personal, family, and sometimes sportsmanlike recreation. Such watercraft are divided into two main categories: motorboats and sailboats. There are also rowboats and canoes. They are used for holidays, for example on a river, lake, canal, waterway, in an archipelago or coastal area. Pleasure craft are normally kept at a marina. They may include accommodation for use while moored to the bank.
In Great Britain, many narrowboats were converted into pleasure craft from their previous use for cargo transport on canals, and today the same hull style is commonly used for new pleasure craft using the canal system.
Usage examples of "pleasure craft".
All manner of contemporary river craft plied the languorous yet muscular stream: sailboats whose ultralight fabrics responded automatically to shifts in wind speed and direction,hovercraft built up out of ultralight composites, MAG barges which utilized the minute differences in electric charge between air and water to lumber along several centimeters above the surface of the water, big powerboats, tiny super fast pleasure craft, and land-based skimmers.
The Intracoastal Waterway runs past a few miles north, but it's used mostly by pleasure craft and limited barge traffic.
Only imperial pleasure craft, a few microscopic industrial applications, and the most exotic of military weapons used lovely generation.
Then someone had the bright idea of getting all available craft from the island, especially pleasure craft with low drafts, so they could sail further in to the beach to pick up troops.
The long lines of small pleasure craft, winter-landed on the dock in chocks, lay like a forest of leafless trees.
Some of them had been runabouts, just pleasure craft, and while they were drive-capable, they either weren't roomy enough or well enough shielded.
But there was plenty of room for small commercial and pleasure craft.