Subway vs Flyovers - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between subway and flyovers

is that subway is an underground railway, especially for mass transit of people in urban areas while flyovers is plural of flyover.

is to travel by underground railway.

(wikipedia subway)

(en noun)

(North America, Scotland) An underground railway, especially for mass transit of people in urban areas.

(US) A rapid transit system, regardless of the elevation of its right of way.

(British) underground walkway, tunnel for pedestrians (called pedestrian underpass in US).

(underground railway) * metro * tube * underground (rapid transit system) * rapid transit (underground walkway) * underpass

(en verb)

(intransitive, US, informal) To travel by underground railway.

* {{quote-news, year=2008, date=February 13, author=Melissa Clark, title=From Paris, With Hustle, work=New York Times citation

, passage=I suppose I could have subwayed around town in search of froufrou French pastry shops. }}