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ring road plural ring roads
( chiefly Australia , New Zealand , UK ) circumferential highway around a town, city, or other conurbation .
Synonyms: ( US ) beltway orbital motorway 2025 September 3, Christian Wolmar, “9 to 5: The changing face of commuting”, in RAIL , number 1043 , page 57 :Underground stations were also slated for closure, and there were plans for massive ring roads to cater for the ever-growing numbers of people commuting into town by car. [ …] However, it soon dawned on politicians that this was unsustainable. Much of London would have had to be demolished to make way for the ring roads , and parking was becoming an insuperable difficulty.
highway
Bulgarian: околовръстен път m ( okolovrǎsten pǎt )
Catalan: ronda (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 環路 / 环路 (zh) ( huánlù ) , 繞城公路 / 绕城公路 ( ràochéng gōnglù )
Czech: okruh (cs) m inan
Dutch: ring (nl) m ringweg (nl) m
Finnish: kehätie (fi)
French: périphérique (fr) m ring (fr) m rocade (fr) f route de ceinture f voie de ceinture f boulevard de ceinture m
German: Ringstraße (de) f Umgehungsstraße (de) f
Greek: περιφερειακός δρόμος m ( perifereiakós drómos )
Hungarian: körgyűrű (hu)
Indonesian: jalan lingkar (id)
Irish: cuarbhóthar m bóthar cuarach m
Italian: circonvallazione (it) f
Japanese: 環状道路 ( kanjō dōro )
Korean: 순환선(循環線) ( sunhwanseon )
Lithuanian: lankstas ?
Macedonian: обиколница f ( obikolnica )
Malay: jalan lingkaran
Norwegian:
Bokmål: ringvei m
Nynorsk: ringvei m
Polish: obwodnica (pl) f
Portuguese: anel rodoviário m ( Brazil ) , contorno (pt) m ( Brazil ) , circular (pt) f ( Portugal ) , circunvalação f ( Portugal )
Romanian: centură (ro) f
Russian: кольцева́я доро́га f inan ( kolʹcevája doróga ) , окружна́я доро́га f inan ( okružnája doróga ) , кольцева́я f inan ( kolʹcevája ) , окружна́я (ru) f inan ( okružnája )
Spanish: circunvalación (es) f
Swedish: ringväg (sv) c ringled (sv) c
Ukrainian: кільцева́ доро́га f inan ( kilʹcevá doróha ) , кільцева́ f inan ( kilʹcevá )
Welsh: cylchffordd f
