cable car
: a vehicle moved by an endless cable:
a : one suspended from an overhead cable
b : one that moves along tracks
Recent Examples on the Web
//The cable cars, which run three lines — Powell-Hyde, Powell-Mason and California — are a National Historic Landmark.
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Bharbi Hazarika, Los Angeles Times, "San Francisco cable cars are shut down for repairs for 10 days," 13 Sep. 2019
//Architecture critic Michael Kimmelman has a fascinating report on a highly controversial new plan for a cable car system that would connect Jewish holy sites in East Jerusalem.
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Los Angeles Times, "Newsletter: Essential Arts: Will ‘La Bohème’ distract L.A. opera audiences from Plácido’s troubles?," 14 Sep. 2019
//The system, which consisted of two small cubesats connected by a 33 foot-long cable and a inches-tall cable car, was released from the ISS the following month.
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Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, "Astronomers Have Another Space Elevator Design," 30 Aug. 2019
//Ascend to the heart of the Mont Blanc massif in a cable car, taking in jaw-dropping views of Europe’s highest peaks.
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National Geographic, "Italy: Hidden Treasures of the Northwest," 12 June 2019
//For day-only trips, ride a cable car to the mountaintop for city views, take a five-mile train ride, trek on a ropes course, visit a goat farm and see the Megabugs exhibit with larger-than-life bugs.
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Jeff Roffman, ajc, "8 places to visit before kids head back to school," 31 July 2019
//The Hyde and Mason cable car lines, E and F streetcar lines and the 8, 19, 28, 30, 39, 47 and 49 routes will have reroutes during the fireworks.
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Patrick May, The Mercury News, "How to get, from San Francisco’s July 4 fireworks spectacular — without a car," 3 July 2019
//Opened in 1987, the DLR includes 45 stations and serves several other London transport icons: the Cutty Sark clipper ship (get off at Cutty Sark for Maritime Greenwich) and the Emirates cable car (reach it from Royal Victoria station).
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Robert Chg, National Geographic, "See why the world’s best subway lines are destinations unto themselves," 19 July 2019
//My grandfather earned his living as a gripman on Chicago’s cable cars; my grandmother scrubbed floors.
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WSJ, "Hard to Pick Immigrants for the Long Term," 17 June 2019
First Known Use of cable car
1874, in the meaning defined above
Dictionary Entries near cable car
More Definitions forcable car
: a vehicle that hangs in the air from a cable that pulls it up and down mountains
: a vehicle that is pulled along tracks by a cable