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🚐 Traveling by road 🚧 Road construction 🛣️ To build a road
to roading

to roading

7.5
To make or improve a road to give access to a place
  • verb
  • Australian
translation icon : construir carreteras
  • After the storm, workers began roading the damaged rural route to restore access.

Examples

  • Like we need someone to build a road in Afghanistan.

  • But now we're going to build a road with the heavy toilet load.

  • The team will start roading through the forest to create a new access path.

  • They are roading in the remote village to connect it with the main highway.

Synonyms

to corduroy
vsto roading
  • Archaic
9.6

To make a muddy area passable by laying logs crosswise

focus on building or improving tracks mainly to give access to remote areas
to cobblestone
vsto roading
7.7

To pave a street or path with small rounded stones

is about making or improving access tracks often in remote or rough places

Compounds

off-roading
3 5.1

Driving a car or truck across rough natural land instead of roads

How Extensive

building
941 1.0
to roading
  • Australian
7.5
paving
1 2.2
track
∞ 2.2
clearing
2 2.8

Surface Forms

roading infinitive
roaded past
roaded past participle
roading present participle
roadings third person singular

Morphology

roading = road (transparent) = road + ing

The form is the present participle/gerund of the verb 'to road', so the meaning is predictable from 'road' (verb) + '-ing'.

Etymology

Roading as a verb is built from road 'way' plus -ing, and it means 'to make or improve a road' to give access to a place. So when people say they are roading a hillside, they mean they are creating or improving a way there.