airstrip

[ air-strip ]

noun

1. a small landing field having only one runway.
2. a temporary or auxiliary aircraft runway.

airstrip

/ ˈɛəˌstrɪp /

noun

1. a cleared area for the landing and taking off of aircraft; runway Also calledlanding strip

Word History and Origins

Origin of airstrip¹

First recorded in 1940–45; air ¹ + strip ²

Example Sentences

Van Linge says he was able to verify that the videos from Lutsk were likely genuine, because the airstrip and buildings were recognizable and could be compared against older footage.

From Time

The cart crossed a wooden bridge linking the eastern part of the island with the airstrip on the west.

From Washington Post

A straight 24-hour push brought them from the summit down to the airstrip at the 7,300-foot Kahiltna base camp.

From Outside Online

Our puddle-jumper lands on a small airstrip lined with solar panels.

From Outside Online

Often we’d spend longs days at the Toledo Airport, a tiny municipal airstrip where he and his friends would parachute out of small, dubious, single-engined airplanes while I would pack parachutes.

From Ozy

But as the decades passed, airplanes replaced steamboats and folks abandoned Old Bettles to live near the airstrip.

From The Daily Beast

The Cessna landed like a feather on Bettles Field, a long, flat airstrip built by the Navy during World War II.

From The Daily Beast

Growing up in Lukla, Pasang watched planes land at the airstrip near her village.

From The Daily Beast

It was late 1977 when the DC-3 lowered its landing gear onto a jungle airstrip, one of dozens on the Caribbean side of Colombia.

From The Daily Beast

Her body had been found along an abandoned airstrip access road just 30 yards from her host family's home.

From The Daily Beast

The engineer tapped on the microphone, and the tap, greatly amplified, reverberated across the airstrip.

From Project Gutenberg

Then the firing area was passed and the jeep sped along next to the miles-long black, oiled path of the airstrip.

From Project Gutenberg

At Umiat (June 25, 1952), ptarmigan were using seven dusting pits on the shoulder of the airstrip.

From Project Gutenberg

There, on the proving ground, they watched a big transport-plane land on a makeshift airstrip.

From Project Gutenberg

He saw several flocks of ducks including one containing "about a dozen ducks" at ponds along a roadway and at an airstrip.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• path
• platform
• ramp
• road
• tarmac