This research addresses the growing issue of cyberbullying through the use of recurrent neural networks (RNN) and word embedding techniques. Utilizing two labeled datasets (Arabic and English), the study evaluates various classifiers, with the gated recurrent unit (GRU) achieving the highest accuracy of 87.83% on the Arabic dataset and 93.38% on the English dataset. The findings underscore the importance of machine learning and deep learning approaches in detecting cyberbullying to mitigate its negative societal impacts.