Thesaurus results for RING ROAD

ring road

noun

Definition of ring road

chiefly British

as in bypass

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Recent Examples of ring road The stadium, situated on the city’s ring road, is a throwback to a less refined age in English football, with a facade that blends barbed wire and concrete in a way that has changed little since the days when Savile ruled the UK’s airwaves. — Simon Hughes, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2026 Two sites inside of what had been the mall’s ring road are under consideration for the station, according to village documents. — Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 10 Jan. 2026 The 58-acre site and its 15-acre ring road are expected to be listed for sale in early 2026. — Hannah Kirby, jsonline.com, 1 Oct. 2025 Indeed, while many visitors like to take in the otherworldly sights of this mystical country by driving its ring road, the best, and easily most relaxing way, is to explore everything Iceland has to offer by sea. — Jeri Clausing, AFAR Media, 7 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for ring road

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Noun

Mamdani’s alternative would revisit the 2006 strategy by threading an elevated bypass into the narrow slot between the BQE and Brooklyn Bridge Park.

— Justin Davidson, Curbed, 24 Aug. 2026
An additional bypass lane will run from Columbia Heights, over the Brooklyn Bridge approach, to the Manhattan Bridge.

— Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of bypass

Noun

The parkway passes through Alleghany County near the Virginia state line.

— Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 21 Aug. 2026
Crews will return to Lisle in the spring and fall to determine which parkway trees need to be replaced, and will do so for residents who lost trees in the storms, Elias said.

— Tara Molina, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of parkway

Noun

Birmingham’s city council plans to cut street parking and is considering carving bike lanes out of dual carriageway roads.

— The Economist, The Economist, 23 May 2020
The extraordinary footage of the white van grinding along the bridge rail Tony Hawk-style, going within inches of falling onto the dual carriageway below, happened in Burton-Upon-Trent, Staffordshire.

— Fox News, Fox News, 16 July 2018

Definition of dual carriageway

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Over 85% of federal employees live outside of the Washington, DC, beltway, with states like Florida, Texas and California hubs for more than 100,000 workers each, government data shows.

— Danya Gainor, CNN Money, 3 July 2026
And that car then made a corner and slammed into a concrete jersey barrier on the beltway.

— Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 13 May 2026

Definition of beltway

Noun

Wall Street and Main Street The extra boosts to earnings this quarter meant that comparisons to last year's results were skewed in retailers' favor in many cases.

— Laya Neelakandan, CNBC, 30 Aug. 2026
Grand Boulevard from 25th Street to 22nd Street; Pershing Road westbound from Grand Boulevard to Main Street; and both lanes of Pershing Road from Grand Boulevard to McGee Street.

— Dan Kelly August 30, Kansas City Star, 30 Aug. 2026

Definition of Main Street

Noun

Little Rock police spokesman Mark Edwards said the officer who was chasing Shelton did not follow him south in the northbound lanes, instead getting back on the interstate heading south in the southbound lanes.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Aug. 2026
The offerings of any decent oyster shucker will change according to the seasons and the tides and the shoals and the shipping lines and the harbor freight and the rush-hour traffic on the interstate.

— Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of interstate

Noun

Our strategic position between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi watershed set our course as a commerce superhighway, with the Chicago Portage connecting two vast trading routes between the Atlantic and the Gulf.

— Alaina Harkness, Chicago Tribune, 3 May 2026
Mycorrhizal fungi direct traffic through nutrient superhighways and restructure the soil to support life across entire ecosystems.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 6 Apr. 2026

Definition of superhighway

Noun

Earlier in August, five teenagers were killed in a two-vehicle collision in Ireland after driving a car the wrong way down a motorway.

— Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 24 Aug. 2026
At the periphery, the big cities with their golden nightlights bound together by long threads of motorway.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of motorway

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