Any of various relatively small, streamlined sailing or motor-driven vessels used for pleasure cruises or racing, A vessel propelled either by sails or by steam, most often light or comparatively small, but sometimes of large size, used for pleasure-trips or for racing, or as a vessel of state to convey persons of distinction by water, Any vessel used for private, noncommercial purposes, verb_ travel in a yacht, intransitive To sail, voyage, or race in a yacht, intransitive verb_ To manage a yacht; to voyage in a yacht, To sail, cruise, or race in a yacht