pathway
 
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Roads: pedestrian routes
alley
boardwalk
breezeway
bridle path
car-free
cart track
esplanade
holloway
labyrinth
ley line
maze
mazy
nature strip
nature trail
paving stone
pedestrianize
piazza
rail trail
sidewalk
switchback

Examples from literature

A footpath led across to the lonely cottage. 
I walked among the trees trying to find the footpath. 
The district is one of winding lanes and field footpaths so characteristic of the county. 
There is a more direct footpath across the fields. 
They led along a well-defined footpath running through the woods and up something of a hill. 

footpath | American Dictionary

footpath
noun[ C ]
us/ˈfʊtˌpæθ/
a path for walking

Examples of footpath

footpath
Moreover, no evidence of faeces was observed in playground sites nor in samples removed from established footpaths.
It also continues the character of this street in that the houses have their front doors immediately at the footpath.
Most houses are set back from these roads, and reachable only via narrow footpaths.
Swaledale footpaths are not recently-established 'amenities'; they have ancient origins.
The parking area, entrance square, footpaths, greens etc were separately identifiable, but also fluidly linked.
Also, they were uneasy because their digging so near the footpath that crossed through this area was drawing a lot of unwanted attention.
Either side of these roads are to be planted with trees and be provided with pedestrian footpaths of 4 zira's width.
It often seems to this reviewer that for most of them environmental/green concerns are about countryside, footpaths, and keeping the neighbourhoods' clean.
The streets are narrow and do not have footpaths.
The first part of the route to the east coast, over footpaths through the eastern mountains and the piedmont zone, was the hardest.
It is an ideal lightweight addition for the rucksack when walking the coastal footpath.
Along these field edges, footpaths and bicycle paths run by the gardens of the buildings, away from the noise, creating a network of routes connecting the entire new citylandscape.
The two-level pattern of settlement is frequently echoed by surviving footpaths (which are rights of way) although the lower path is sometimes supplanted now by a road.
These footpaths connected highland and coastal places that were ruled by the same clan, so that, in a way, the path was a physical realization of a kinship tie.
Adept motorcyclists could navigate the sandy footpaths between the two villages more rapidly, but this came at double risk.
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