Aerial Tramway
Also known as: Cable Car, Gondola, Ropeway
Description
An Aerial Tramway, most commonly seen at ski resorts, for transport between locations on a mountain. Can also be used as a tourist attraction, or as a form of public transport. In 2018 this emoji was the focus of a grassroots campaign on Twitter where users of the platform began using this emoji more frequently. This was to update the least-used emoji on emojitracker.com (as tracked by the @leastUsedEmoji Twitter bot) from the Aerial Tramway to another emoji.
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Emojipedia | :aerial_tramway: | |
GitHub | :aerial_tramway: | |
Slack | :aerial_tramway: | |
Discord | :aerial_tramway: |
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An Aerial Tramway, most commonly seen at ski resorts, for transport between locations on a mountain. Can also be used as a tourist attractio http://emojipedia.org/aerial-tramway/
- A facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods
- A means of conveyance.
- Shared passenger transport service which is available for use by the general public
- The act or the means of conveying people in mass as opposed to conveyance in private vehicles.
- Any form of transport that can be used by a member of public (usually for a fee); as opposed to private ownership of e.g. cars.
- Public transport is a shared passenger transport service which is available for use by the general public, as distinct from modes such as taxicab, carpooling or hired buses which are not shared by strangers without private arrangement.
- The conveyance of people or goods from one place to another, especially on a public transportation system; the vehicles used for such conveyance.
- The conveyance of people or goods from one place to another.
- A system of cables, slung from towers, from which carriers are suspended to transport materials.
- Tramways are lightly laid railways, sometimes worked without locomotives.
- Type of aerial lift in which the cars are permanently fixed to the cables
- An aerial tramway, cable car, ropeway or aerial tram is a type of aerial lift which uses one or two stationary ropes for support while a third moving rope provides propulsion.