walk up

No elevator apartment

Walk up means to approach on foot: She walked up to the counter and placed her order.

As a noun or adjective, a walk-up is a building without an elevator, or an apartment in such a building: a fifth-floor walk-up.

Walk-up also describes services requiring no appointment: a walk-up window, walk-up COVID testing.

Related

apartment · stroll · saunter · entrance · doorway · steps · mount · building · unannounced · cold call · knock · ring doorbell · threshold · arrive · tenement · brownstone · flight · landing

Categories
Opposites
building access method

walk upelevator building

Structure with mechanical lifts

high-rise · tower block · doorman building · skyscraper · luxury apartment

direction of movement

walk updescend

Move to lower position

go down · climb down · step down · come down

mode of approach

walk uppull up

Raise body to bar

ride up · drive-thru · roll up

Family

walk, up, walks, walked, walking, walker, walkers, walkable, walkway

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G