A "motorboat" is a type of small boat that is powered by a motor. It uses the motor to move through the water instead of relying on oars or sails. Full definition
In his elliptical and somewhat loopy drama about the slipperiness of love at any age, French filmmaker André Téchiné uses the sight of scudding motorboats on the waterways around workaday Venice as a visual reinforcement of time as a river. (metacritic.com)
Personal Watercrafts (PWC) are subject to the same laws governing the operation of motorboats of the same size. (freewayinsurance.com)
The final product is a brilliant reinterpretation of pastoral scenes in which aristocrats frolicking in Europe are replaced with black figures relaxing on the shores of Lake Michigan in Chicago: sailboats, crew shells and parasols are substituted with motorboats, water skiers and boom boxes: a summer breeze is swept aside by lyrics from Motown and Snoop Dogg. (artmarketmonitor.com)