They kept carefully to the paths and did not go across the farmer's fields.
a path leads somewhere
There are many paths leading to the top of the mountain.
a path winds
A narrow path wound down towards the beach.
a path climbs (=goes upwards)
I could see the line of a path that climbed up from the bay.
ADJECTIVES/NOUN + path
narrow
We walked along a narrow path beside a stream.
steep
A steep path led down to the harbour.
muddy
They trudged up the muddy path.
rocky
Our guide trod carefully down the rocky path.
winding
He climbed the winding path up the hill.
well-worn (=used a lot or for a long time)
I followed what seemed to be a well-worn path heading in the right direction.
a garden path
Emma came running up the garden path.
a coast/coastal/cliff path
From the cliff path, you get superb views out to sea.
a cycle path (=for people riding bicycles)
They should put a cycle path along the edge of each new road they build.
a bridle path (=for people riding horses)
He knows all the bridle paths through the woods.
Examples from the Corpus
path• He lead me down a path to a farmhouse.• Students had worn a path across the courtyard.• a path through the woods• There are many alternativepathsavailable to follow and many of these paths will turn out to be dead ends.• Mrs Smith was singing as she came up the gardenpath.• Her pathfailed to cross with Vitor's, yet throughout the afternoon Ashley remained constantly aware of him.• But historicpaths make a difference.• The tornadodestroyed everything in its path.• A narrowpath took us down to the river.• the Earth's path around the sun• He turned slightly left, following the same path out as the last two times.• Suddenly from above us a twenty-foot-long heavylogburst into view, careening down the path like a bobsled.• And so, as she started down the path, she was alone.• Louise walked ahead of him up the path carrying the pie in a wickerbasket.• She led him stealthily up the path Rodomonte had taken to the summit.• Workers at the plant found their path was blocked by protesters.
garden path• Layingbricks or paviors on a bed of sand is probably the easiest way of making a garden path.• The concretegarden path has been bricked over and vinesadorn the white-painted exterior.• And so they merely shook hands, and she walked off down the garden path to her door.• That is the garden path down which Bill and Ricky will come.• Then one of them led him up the garden path to a shed.• But the storyteller has been using all his art to lead us up the garden path.• Elaine walked up the garden path and he followed her.• Up the garden path and a frisson of unease: there is no house, but a vista of a majesticlake.
path to freedom/success/independence etc• There seemed to be no clearpath to success, and there was no political consensus about what to do.• They deconstructed our clear path to freedom by turning us on ourselves.• But our eyes, as though reversed, encircle it on every side, like traps set round its unobstructedpath to freedom.