ring roadnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈrɪŋ ˌrəʊd/us/ˈrɪŋ ˌroʊd/UK US usually beltwaya main road that goes around the edge of a town, allowing traffic to avoid the town centre:
We got stuck in traffic on the ring road.
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Roads: rural & suburban
- back road
- beltway
- bypass
- byway
- dirt road
- feeder
- highway
- main road
- orbital road
- rat run
- service road
- stock route
- the highways and byways idiom
- thoroughfare
- through route
- throughway
- thruway
- trunk road
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