The phrase "a footpath is a" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when defining or explaining what a footpath is, typically in a descriptive or educational context.
Example: "A footpath is a designated route for pedestrians, often found in parks or along roads."
Alternatives: "a footpath refers to" or "a footpath can be described as".
The church, several hundred feet away along a footpath, was a cinder-block structure with a simple altar and a dozen wooden pews.
Since then they have spread and bred, and the sight of a boar rootling on a roadside verge or crossing a footpath is no longer extraordinary.
A woman whose head was found in a shopping bag on a footpath was named by police today.
He also suggested that a footpath be included on the bridge, so that schoolchildren and other pedestrians would have a safer railway crossing.
The town walls became less important for defence in the 17th century, although in 1633, a footpath was built around the inside of the wall to help the watch and other law officers better pursue vagrants and criminals.
The vegetation in the canyon bottom has regenerated quickly from the terrible 1993 fire that blackened the canyon: A narrow, brush-crowded footpath was a fairly wide ranch road before the blaze.
Falls on stairs, kerbs and footpaths are a major cause of morbidity in older female adults.
Footpaths are a prominent consequence of natural area tourism and reflect damage caused to valuable, sensitive habitats by people pressure.
Freeman argued that cycling on footpaths was a danger to pedestrians and that cycling at night without lights posed a danger to all road users.
During the mid-19th century, the increasing population led to calls for social amenities to be improved; footpaths were a particular concern, although an examination of ordnance survey mapping demonstrates the continued isolation of the village generally.
