Thesaurus results for RACEWAY

raceway

noun

ˈrās-ˌwā

as in aqueduct

an open man-made passageway for water the child who fell through the ice was helplessly swept along the raceway, still trapped under the ice, by the current

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Recent Examples of raceway The last shuttle will depart the raceway at 4 a.m. each morning. —

Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 22 Dec. 2025 Ash Street off State Route 163 is a raceway with speeding and red-light violations. —

U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Nov. 2025 If a small remodel isn’t in your weekend plans, pick up a few cable concealers (also known as cable raceways) at your local hardware store. —

Emily Williams, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Nov. 2025 The raceway closed in 2018 and reopened in 2020 for Akasol production. —

Jackie Charniga, Freep.com, 18 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for raceway

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Despite the dilapidated state, the couple fell in love with its ancient olive trees, a creek and a network of aqueducts winding through the fields.

— Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 22 May 2026
The rolling landscape, nestled between a nature preserve and a cattle ranch, had silvery groves of ancient olive trees, a meandering creek, and a network of antique aqueducts snaking through the fields.

— Ingrid Abramovitch, Architectural Digest, 22 May 2026