Welcome to 2025, Cruisers. These first few days of the new year are a clean slate—the year is yours for the taking. Maybe your resolutions for 2025 are to host your first group; maybe you’re determined to experiment with chastity; perhaps you’ve simply decided to focus on painting DL trade (we support you either way). Many people say that getting to the gym more often is at the top of their resolutions list—and for Cruisers that can only mean one thing: it’s gym cruising season.
As gyms get more packed than ever this time of year, we’ve got tips, tricks, and reminders (for you cruising veterans) to finally bag your gym crush.
Use the Sniffies Map to Find the Best Times to Cruise (duh)
Even the cruisiest gyms have lulls, or times when it’s impossible to cruise. Mornings are likely a busy time for any cruisey gym, but that could mean it’s actually too crowded for any action. Early evenings, when most people leave work, could have the same issue.
Check the Sniffies map to see who’s checked into your gym, when peak times are, and where the popular cruising spots in your gym might be. If you’re especially keen, you can post in the cruising location’s chat to announce your arrival.
Steam Rooms, Saunas, and Urinals are Your Friends
Swapping prolonged eye contact with a pair of biceps in a tank top by the freeweights is a time-honored tradition—and it certainly can lead to a cruisey exchange later. But steam rooms, saunas, locker rooms, and urinals are where the rubber meets the road.
Those are the areas where a glance and a smirk can lead directly to some cruising action. That might look like a strategic towel shift, a prolonged “adjustment,” or even something more obvious—however your cruising experience unfolds, make sure you stay vigilant, and be clear about the lines of consent for you, and for him, (and him, and him, and him).
Patience is Key
Some cruising areas are built for immediate action. Late night park cruising situations, for example, are all about quick and dirty hookups. Gyms are slightly different—you’re going to need to perfect your timing. You’ll need to wait until you’re sure everyone involved is on board, and that you won’t be interrupted—that spells the immediate end of your cruising experience (and probably your membership at that gym).
It might not happen immediately, but if you wait for it, the perfect time will present itself, and that’s when you can finally live out your gym cruising fantasy.
Don’t be a Steam Room Troll
Yes, you have to be patient, and yes, you’ll have better luck cruising in a steam room or sauna, but no one likes the guy who lurks there for hours hoping to get a little play. By all means, take your time, have fun, and get yours, but if no one’s taking you up on your offers, take the hint.
Maybe it’s not your day, or maybe you’ve simply hit your gym at an inopportune time. Either way the steam room will always be there, and there are plenty of fish in the Sniffes map sea.
