airstrip
noun
air·strip ˈer-ˌstrip 
: a runway without normal air base or airport facilities
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web The airstrip is owned by the Brazilian government — the only way for health care officials to reach the Indigenous people in the nearby village. 
New York Times, 2 Aug. 2022 Guests fly in the hotel's eight-seat plane to its private airstrip, then finish up the journey on a speedboat to the hotel. Anne Olivia Bauso, Travel + Leisure, 27 Mar. 2022 That led her to step onto a small plane on a remote airstrip a few hundred miles northwest of Whitehorse. Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Aug. 2022 The city’s 75-acre Henry Maier Festival Park is a former airstrip downtown along Lake Michigan. Gregory Pratt, Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug. 2022 As so often in this year’s race, the two were in a class of their own and were left dueling in the brutal final kilometer up to Peyragudes airstrip. San Francisco Chronicle, 20 July 2022 But two days after the signing, publicly available flight records showed that an Ethiopian Airlines charter flight took off from Tekirdağ, an hour’s drive west of Istanbul, at an airstrip known for testing and exporting the Turkish drones. Umar Farooq, ProPublica, 12 July 2022 Last year Kiribati said China planned to upgrade the airstrip to better connect the islands and improve tourism -- a key part of its KV20 blueprint -- according to Reuters. Hilary Whiteman, CNN, 12 July 2022 At each camp, guests are transferred by road to the nearest airstrip to fly to a selection of airports in Tanzania, including Julius Nyerere International Airport in Dar es Salaam and Kilimanjaro International Airport. Shelby Knick, Forbes, 19 May 2022 See More
New York Times, 2 Aug. 2022 Guests fly in the hotel's eight-seat plane to its private airstrip, then finish up the journey on a speedboat to the hotel. Anne Olivia Bauso, Travel + Leisure, 27 Mar. 2022 That led her to step onto a small plane on a remote airstrip a few hundred miles northwest of Whitehorse. Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Aug. 2022 The city’s 75-acre Henry Maier Festival Park is a former airstrip downtown along Lake Michigan. Gregory Pratt, Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug. 2022 As so often in this year’s race, the two were in a class of their own and were left dueling in the brutal final kilometer up to Peyragudes airstrip. San Francisco Chronicle, 20 July 2022 But two days after the signing, publicly available flight records showed that an Ethiopian Airlines charter flight took off from Tekirdağ, an hour’s drive west of Istanbul, at an airstrip known for testing and exporting the Turkish drones. Umar Farooq, ProPublica, 12 July 2022 Last year Kiribati said China planned to upgrade the airstrip to better connect the islands and improve tourism -- a key part of its KV20 blueprint -- according to Reuters. Hilary Whiteman, CNN, 12 July 2022 At each camp, guests are transferred by road to the nearest airstrip to fly to a selection of airports in Tanzania, including Julius Nyerere International Airport in Dar es Salaam and Kilimanjaro International Airport. Shelby Knick, Forbes, 19 May 2022 See More Word History
First Known Use
1911, in the meaning defined above
Kids Definition
airstrip
noun
air·strip ˈer-ˌstrip
: a runway without places (as hangars) for the repair of aircraft or shelter of passengers or cargo
airstrip
noun
as in runway
Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- runway
- heliport
- airfield
- helipad
- landing field
- landing strip
- airport
- air base
- jetport
- aerodrome
- airdrome
- air park
- pad
- launchpad
- field
