Synonyms of rails

rails 1 of 2

noun

plural of rail

1

as in railings

a protective barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and its supports

the stairs are icy, so hold onto the rail

Synonyms & Similar Words

• railings
• guardrails
• balustrades
• banisters
• fenders
• handrails
• taffrails

2

as in roads

a roadway overlaid with parallel steel rails over which trains travel

an abandoned stretch of rail that was overgrown with brush

Synonyms & Similar Words

• roads
• railroads
• railways
• elevated railroads
• els
• monorails
• elevateds

rails

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of rail

as in rants

Related Words

• rants
• fulminates
• reviles
• damns
• execrates
• imprecates
• cusses
• blasphemes
• swears
• confounds
• curses
• anathematizes

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of rails

Noun

Reigns sent The Usos on a quest to keep Fatu in line but with the emergence of the 946 – things have gone completely off the rails. — Ryan Gaydos Outkick, FOXNews.com, 10 Oct. 2026

Corsair drilled the inner portion of its 200mm fan frames to screw directly onto the rails when they are set at their 140mm position. — Thomas Soderstrom, PC Magazine, 10 Oct. 2026

Next came Wild Horse Nine’s John Malkovich, who won the Best Actor prize at Venice for his performance as a CIA assassin going off the rails. — Nate Jones, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2026

Wild Land The more complex, multidirectional unfolding action lets the roomy Trunk camper pack small at 25 in (64 cm) tall on top of the bed rails, riding close to cab height without the cabover extension camping toppers usually have. — New Atlas, 8 Oct. 2026

In cross-border payments, businesses and consumers moved $135 billion through stablecoin rails in 2025, up 64% year on year. — Pratik Khowala, Forbes.com, 6 Oct. 2026

Walls, backsplash areas and the space beneath upper cabinets rarely get treated as storage, even though rails, pegboards, magnetic strips, floating shelves and hanging baskets can absorb a meaningful share of what currently sits on the counter. — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Miami Herald, 1 Oct. 2026

The process to assemble one of the country’s largest rails-to-trails corridors took about two decades, spanning four mayoral administrations. — Zachary Hansen, AJC.com, 1 Oct. 2026

For some cross-border micropayments, stablecoins and other programmable rails may make very small transactions faster and cheaper than traditional methods. — Shlomit Wagman, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2026