walkway

UK/ˈwɔːkˌweɪ/US/ˈwɔkˌweɪ/

nounC1Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechleans written

Other forms: walkways

A walkway is a paved route built for people on foot. Deliberate, and usually raised or covered.

It differs from a path by being constructed rather than worn, and it often means a route that crosses something, so a walkway over a road or between two buildings. Airports and hospitals are full of them. There is a moving walkway in large airports, which is the flat escalator that saves nobody any time because everybody stands still on it.

Definitions of walkway

1nounwalkwayA constructed path for pedestrians.C1
“A covered walkway runs between the two buildings.”

Also accepted in games: path

Where it comes from

From walk + way.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in A Man Called Ove

First appears in chapter 34 of A Man Called Ove.

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walkway in the wild

In American English, walkway is a composite or umbrella term for all engineered surfaces or structures which support the use of trails.
Walkway
In Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the SkyWalk is an approximately 500-metre enclosed and elevated walkway (skyway) connecting Union Station to the CN Tower and the Rogers Centre (SkyDome).
Walkway
On July 17, 1981, two overhead walkways in the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri, collapsed, killing 114 people and injuring 216.
Hyatt Regency walkway collapse
Early walkways consisted of bridges between trees in the canopy of a forest; mostly linked up with platforms inside or around the trees.
Canopy walkway
The walkway connects the Hudson Valley Rail Trail to the Dutchess Rail Trail, forming part of the Empire State Trail.
Walkway over the Hudson

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