Rails
Rails noun - A bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll.
Walkways
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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No OSHA Compliance: Zodanga has a distinct lack of guard rails, even on the open-air elevators and walkways above the industrial machinery.
Source: Film / John Carter -
In one case, in order to escape a lockdown, the team runs down the maintenance walkways of the main gun, and briefly across the firing rails (if you're too slow, you get shot into space).
Source: Boarding Party -
Grim Batol (a ruined Dwarven city used as a base by the Twilight Hammer cult) has several holes in the walkways, often on the bridges, and hardly anything resembling safety rails.
Source: No OSHA Compliance
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Walkways and Rails. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 29, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/rails/walkways
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