A belt of parks or rural land surrounding a town or city

Usage examples of greenbelt.

They had taken the eight-mile Greenbelt Bikeway from Boston Common, ending at the Franklin Park Zoo.

Rocky guided her out the back door and onto the greenbelt that followed the Boise River.

The kitchen window provided a view of the greenbelt that wound through Los Cabos, a sprawling condominium development in Irvine.

Goddard Space Flight Center, in Greenbelt, Maryland, was a short drive from the White House—and the sprawling, campuslike complex had several electromagnetically shielded labs for the routine assembly and checkout of scientific satellites.

Goddard Space Flight Center, in Greenbelt, Maryland, was a short drive from the White House—and the sprawling, campuslike complex had several electromagnetically shielded labs for the routine assembly and checkout of scientific satellites.

That was the wonderful thing about Novgorod: because they had the Amity escarpment on the east and the terraforming had piled up the rock and put up towers to make the Curtainwall on the west, and because they had all those people and all that sewage and all that algae and the greenbelt and algae starting out even in the marine shallows, it was one of the few places in the world besides Reseune that people went out without D-suits and the only other airport besides Reseune where you could take your baggage right through without anything but a hose-down and an inspection.

Will Wal-Mart megaliths chew up England’s greenbelts and bleed rural high streets?

Between the greenbelts and the neighborhoods of lushly landscaped properties, the vegetation on undeveloped fields and hills was parched and brown, waiting for the kiss of a match in the trembling hand of one of the pyromaniacs contributing to the annual, devastating wildfire season.

But the gracefully curving streets, iron streetlamps with an artificial green patina, just-so arrangements of palms and jacarandas and ficus benjaminas, and well-maintained greenbelts with beds of colorful flowers were so soothing to the eye and soul that the subliminal sense of regimentation was not stifling.

The innermost ring was a greenbelt lying on both sides of the dog pod grid, and the outer ring was called the Leased Territories.