All metro synonyms

noun metro

• railway — a rail line with lighter-weight equipment and roadbed than a main-line railroad.
• subway — Also called, especially British, tube, underground. an underground electric railroad, usually in a large city.
• underground — beneath the surface of the ground: traveling underground by subway.
• line — a thickness of glue, as between two veneers in a sheet of plywood.
• tube — a hollow, usually cylindrical body of metal, glass, rubber, or other material, used especially for conveying or containing liquids or gases.
• monorail — a single rail functioning as a track for wheeled vehicles, as railroad or other cars, balanced upon or suspended from it.
• tracks — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
• chute — A chute is a steep, narrow slope down which people or things can slide.
• underground railroad — Also called underground railway. a railroad running through a continuous tunnel, as under city streets; subway.
• trolley line — the route of a trolley car or trolley bus.
• rapid transit — a system of public transportation in a metropolitan area, usually a subway or elevated train system.
• lrt — light-rail transit
• light rail — of or relating to a local rail rapid-transit system using large, single passenger cars, railroad-type signals, and, usually, private rights-of-way.
• mass transit — a system of large-scale public transportation in a given metropolitan area, typically comprising buses, subways, and elevated trains.
• rail rapid transit — a system of rail transit within an urban area that has exclusive right of way either below, above, or on the ground and so is capable of relatively high operating speed. Abbreviation: RRT.