people mover
noun
: any of various rapid-transit systems (as of moving sidewalks or automated driverless cars) for shuttling people
Examples of people mover in a Sentence
The airport has a people mover to bring passengers to the far terminals.
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An airport offers, if not exactly an equitable experience (there are Clear lines, lounge archipelagos), then at least a perceptible simulacrum of equality, in that everyone rides the same people movers past the same Cinnabons.
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Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2026
The companies — which included AECOM, one of the firms working on the president’s White House ballroom project — laid out ideas to change Dulles’s layout, build new terminals and do away with the airport’s sometimes notorious shuttles known as people movers, the people said.
—Dan Diamond, Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2026
Hyundai has been teasing the electric model Staria people mover since 2021 and has finally introduced the full production spec model.
—New Atlas, 11 Jan. 2026
For more than four decades, officials talked about a trolley link, or some kind of people mover, to San Diego International Airport.
—Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Dec. 2025
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Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2026
The companies — which included AECOM, one of the firms working on the president’s White House ballroom project — laid out ideas to change Dulles’s layout, build new terminals and do away with the airport’s sometimes notorious shuttles known as people movers, the people said.
—Dan Diamond, Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2026
Hyundai has been teasing the electric model Staria people mover since 2021 and has finally introduced the full production spec model.
—New Atlas, 11 Jan. 2026
For more than four decades, officials talked about a trolley link, or some kind of people mover, to San Diego International Airport.
—Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Dec. 2025
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“People mover.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/people%20mover. Accessed 4 Apr. 2026.
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