Cruising

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Night cruising at the Power Big Meet in Västerås, Sweden

Cruising ( English to cruise , dt. "Drive, cross ") is a loan word for a recreational activity originally developed in the 1950s among American teenagers , in which one slowly takes a car to places frequented by many passers-by ( beach etc. ) drives along. It is about the presentation of one's own social status and usually also about finding sexual partners .

In the language of young people , the term describes “ driving around as cool as possible ”, for example with a longboard or cruiser . Driving around in the city, often in convertibles , sports cars or SUVs , is called cruising or posing . The term is used, for example, in the chart hit cruising the hip-hop band Massive tones : "We are the coolest when we cruise when we head through the city, we are when the sweet ladies greet the coolest us with kisses. "

The verb to cruise in the meaning "common, slow driving around by teenagers with their cars" has been proven since 1957.

A distinction must be made between cruising and cruising , which comes from the gay scene , the targeted search for partners. You don't necessarily need a vehicle, but what they have in common is roaming around.

In Germany , cruising may be prohibited according to Section 30 (1) sentence 3 of the Road Traffic Regulations (StVO) if you drive around uselessly .

Web links

Wiktionary: cruisen  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. Eric Partridge, Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor: The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English. Taylor & Francis, 2006, ISBN 0-415-25937-1 , p. 520