skybridge
Americannoun
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Also called skywalk. a bridgelike structure for pedestrians built to link one building with another over a public alley or street.
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Also called flying bridge, walkway. a similar overhead structure built across an atrium space within a building.
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Origin of skybridge
Example Sentences
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He and four others were taken to a skybridge connecting two high-rise apartment complexes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026
Instead of a pedestrian skybridge, Sound Transit’s design calls for street-level crosswalks, where buses and cars will constantly turn off Delridge and circulate toward drop-off zones.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 12, 2023
It turns out that this is the Wanamaker’s Department Store Annex, a 1903 Renaissance-style marvel originally connected via skybridge to an even more marvelous cast-iron department store across the street called the Iron Palace.
From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2021
Over the next 25 years, the SF-based company will pay a total of $110 million for the naming rights to the transit center and the park, which is connected to the firm’s skyscraper via skybridge.
From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2018
Instead, the guitar turns Miguel invisible, and whisks him across a skybridge covered in thick, soft marigold petals that glow like lava.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 16, 2018
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