walkway

thumb|A canopy walkway at [[Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London, England.]] thumb|upright|The SkyWalk main Arcade (architecture)|arcade facing east towards Union Station, [[Toronto, Ontario, Canada]] In American English, walkway is a composite or umbrella term for all engineered surfaces or structures which support the use of trails.

The New Oxford American Dictionary also defines a walkway as "a passage or path for walking along, esp. a raised passageway connecting different sections of a building or a wide path in a park or garden." The word is used to describe a footpath in New Zealand, where "walkways vary enormously in nature, from short urban strolls, to moderate coastal locations, to challenging tramps [hikes] in the high country [mountains]". Similarly in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, the "Grand Concourse" is an integrated walkway system that has over of walkways, which link every major park, river, pond, and green space in six municipalities.