watercraft

English

A little girl steering a watercraft in Tonle Sap Lake.

Etymology

From water +‎ -craft (vehicle) or water +‎ -craft (skill).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈwɔtɚkɹæft/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

watercraft (countable and uncountable, plural watercrafts or watercraft)

2. (countable and uncountable) Any vessel with implements designed to move it in arbitrary direction through one or various bodies of water: a boat, ship, sea scooter, or similar vehicle.

   Synonym: vessel

   Hypernyms: vessel; vehicle

   Hyponym: see Thesaurus:watercraft § Hyponyms

   • 2013 August 6, Monique Rivilland, “This ski and surf combo could save your life”, in CNN Business‎^[1], archived from the original on 18 February 2015:

     Thanks to British designer Ross Kemp, the world has been graced with a solar-powered watercraft that costs just a third of the price of your average powered water craft. […] Although only at its second prototype, ASAP has already won an award for Best Startup Business in the UK Lloyds TSB Enterprise Awards and Kemp is thinking about how to expand: “I’d love to be able to offer solar charging stations to local councils so they can charge their watercrafts whenever they need to.”

3. (uncountable, rare) Skill in boating, swimming, or other water-related sports.

Derived terms

• personal watercraft

Translations

any self-propelled vessel — see also vessel,‎ boat,‎ ship

• Catalan: embarcació (ca) f
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: veesõiduk
• Finnish: vesikulkuneuvo (fi)
• German: Wasserfahrzeug (de) n
• Greek: σκάφος (el) m (skáfos)
• Swedish: fartyg (sv) n
• Turkish: deniz taşıtı, deniz aracı

skill in boating, swimming, or other water-related sports