traffic pattern

Noun traffic pattern has 1 sense

• traffic pattern(n = noun.location) approach pattern, pattern - the path that is prescribed for an airplane that is preparing to land at an airport; "the traffic patterns around O'Hare are very crowded"; "they stayed in the pattern until the fog lifted"
has parts: approach, approach path, glide path, glide slope
is a kind of itinerary, path, route