city skyline
Downtown building outline
A city skyline is the outline of buildings and structures visible against the sky, typically viewed from a distance.
The term evokes the distinctive silhouette of urban centers—skyscrapers, towers, and landmarks forming a recognizable profile: The Manhattan skyline is iconic.
Skylines often symbolize a city's identity and ambition: New buildings have transformed the skyline.
- spireTapering architectural peak
- horizonApparent earth-sky meeting
- silhouetteFilled-in outline shape
- towerTall slender edifice
- cityscapeView of urban architecture
concrete jungle · urban sprawl · light pollution · sunset · skyscraper · steel and glass · rooftop · bridge · alpenglow · metropolis · downtown · iconic structure · landmark · panorama · aerial shot · architectural style · smog · observation deck
- cityscapesskylines, skyscraper, urban landscapes, high-rise, high-rises
- silhouettestree silhouette, body outline, side profile, shadow puppet, running man
- vistaspanorama, overlook, scenic view, vista point, lookout
- city lightsstreetlights, streetlamps, street lamps, neon signs, lampposts
- Horizon Viewssunset, sunrise, ocean horizon, distant mountains, twilight
- horizonsvisible horizon, flat horizon, ocean horizon, endless horizon, event horizon
city skylinerolling hills
Gently rising, falling landscape
pastoral landscape · countryside · open fields · rural landscape · farmland
city skylinerural landscape
Unindustrialized terrain with farms
small town · village · farmstead · backwoods · outback
city skylineflat horizon
Level land-sky boundary
open plain · barren landscape · tundra · salt flats · ocean view