moving walkway

English

Parisian subway's moving walkway

Noun

moving walkway (plural moving walkways)

1. (US) A slow conveyor belt that transports people horizontally or on an incline in a similar manner to an escalator.
   • 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, pages 110-111:

     The slope [at Bank station, Waterloo & City] was always resented, especially on Monday morning, and it was supplemented by the installation of the Underground's first Trav-o-lator - or moving walkway - in 1960.

Synonyms

• travelator (UK), moving sidewalk (US)

Related terms

• escalator

Translations

slow conveyor belt that transports people horizontally

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 電動步道／电动步道 (diàndòng bùdào), 电动步道 (diàndòng bùdào)

• Danish: rullende fortov c
• Finnish: liukukäytävä
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• French: tapis roulant (fr)
• German: Fahrsteig m, Rollsteig m, Laufband (de) n
• Italian: nastro trasportatore
• Polish: ruchomy chodnik (pl) m
• Spanish: camino rodante m, pasillo rodante m, cinta transportadora f, cinta desplazadora f, acera móvil f, acera mecánica f, pasarela mecánica f