skyway

noun

sky·​way ˈskī-ˌwā 

1

: a route used by airplanes : air lane

2

: an elevated highway

3

: skywalk

Examples of skyway in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Mechanical hums rattle the skyway’s roughly mile-long interstitial space, married with a cacophony of tires thumping over the hundreds of omni-directional, accordion-style joints that are designed to absorb any displacement, rotation or seismic movement. —Katie Lauer, Mercury News, 22 Dec. 2025

For months, if not years, squatters making themselves at home in the derelict Park Square Court space would traverse the skyway over to the Railroader building, where office tenants would sometimes call police to get unruly characters out of the bathroom. —Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 5 Dec. 2025

For those who fear the cold, one other Minnesota invention—the skyway system—connects office buildings, shops, and residential high-rises in both downtowns. —Amy Nelson, Wired News, 6 Nov. 2025

Dalke's monitoring path through DC takes her under a skyway that connects two buildings downtown. —NPR, 17 Oct. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1924, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for skyway

• airway
• allay
• archway
• array
• ashtray
• astray
• aue
• away
• ballet
• belay
• beltway
• beret