range, mountain range, range of mountains, chain, mountain chain, chain of mountains

a series of hills or mountains; "the valley was between two ranges of hills"; "the plains lay just beyond the mountain range"

• Adirondacks, Adirondack Mountains — a mountain range in northeastern New York State; a popular resort area
• Admiralty Range — mountains in Antarctica north of Victoria Land
• Alaska Range — a mountain range in south central Alaska; contains Mount McKinley
• Alleghenies, Allegheny Mountains — the western part of the Appalachian Mountains; extending from northern Pennsylvania to southwestern Virginia
• Alps, the Alps — a large mountain system in south-central Europe; scenic beauty and winter sports make them a popular tourist attraction
• Andes — a mountain range in South America running 5000 miles along the Pacific coast
• Apennines — a mountain range extending the length of the Italian peninsula
• Appalachians, Appalachian Mountains — a mountain range in the eastern United States extending from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico; a historic barrier to early westward expansion of the United States
• Balkans, Balkan Mountains, Balkan Mountain Range — the major mountain range of Bulgaria and the Balkan Peninsula
• Berkshires, Berkshire Hills — a low mountain range in western Massachusetts; a resort area
• Black Hills — mountains in southwestern South Dakota and northeastern Wyoming; sacred to the Sioux (whites settling in the Black Hills led to the Battle of Little Bighorn); site of Mount Rushmore
• Blue Ridge Mountains, Blue Ridge — a range of the Appalachians extending from Pennsylvania to northern Georgia
• Cantabrian Mountains — a range of mountains in northern Spain along the coast of the Bay of Biscay
• Cascades, Cascade Range — a mountain range in the northwestern United States extending through Washington and Oregon and northern California; a part of the Coast Range
• Catskills, Catskill Mountains — a range of the Appalachians west of the Hudson in southeastern New York; includes many popular resort areas
• Caucasus, Caucasus Mountains — the mountain range in Caucasia between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea that forms part of the traditional border between Europe and Asia
• Coast Range, Coast Mountains — a string of mountain ranges along the Pacific coast of North America from southeastern Alaska to Lower California
• Cumberland Mountains, Cumberland Plateau — the southwestern part of the Appalachians
• Dolomite Alps — an eastern range of the Alps in northeastern Italy famous for their dolomitic limestone
• Great Smoky Mountains — part of the Appalachians between North Carolina and Tennessee
• Guadalupe Mountains — a mountain range in southern New Mexico and western Texas; the southern extension of the Sacramento Mountains
• Himalayas, Himalaya Mountains, the Himalaya — a mountain range extending 1500 miles on the border between India and Tibet; this range contains the world's highest mountain
• Hindu Kush, Hindu Kush Mountains — a mountain range extending west of the Himalayas
• Karakoram, Karakoram Range, Karakorum Range, Mustagh, Mustagh Range — a mountain range in northern Kashmir; an extension of the Hindu Kush; contains the 2nd highest peak
• Kunlun, Kunlun Mountains, Kuenlun, Kuenlun Mountains — a mountain range in China
• Mesabi Range — a range of hills in northeastern Minnesota where rich iron ore deposits were discovered in 1887
• Nan Ling — a mountain range in southeastern China running generally east to west
• Ozarks, Ozark Mountains, Ozark Plateau — an area of low mountains in northwestern Arkansas and southeastern Missouri and northeastern Oklahoma
• Pyrenees — a chain of mountains between France and Spain
• Rockies, Rocky Mountains — the chief mountain range of western North America; extends from British Columbia to northern New Mexico; forms the continental divide
• Sacramento Mountains — mountain range in New Mexico east of the Rio Grande
• sierra — a range of mountains (usually with jagged peaks and irregular outline)
• Sierra Madre Occidental — a mountain range in northwestern Mexico that runs south from Arizona parallel to the Pacific coastline
• Sierra Madre Oriental — a mountain range in northeastern Mexico the runs parallel to the coastline of the Gulf of Mexico
• Sierra Nevada, Sierra Nevada Mountains, High Sierra — a mountain range in eastern California; contains Mount Whitney
• Sierra Nevada — a mountain range in southern Spain along the Mediterranean coast east of Granada
• St. Elias Range, St. Elias Mountains — a range of mountains between Alaska and the Yukon territory
• Teton Range — a mountain range in northwest Wyoming; contains the Grand Teton
• Tien Shan, Tyan Shan — a major mountain range of central Asia; extends 1,500 miles
• Urals, Ural Mountains — a mountain range in western Russia extending from the arctic to the Caspian Sea; forms part of the traditional boundary between Europe and Asia

• geological formation, geology, formation — the geological features of the earth

• massif — a block of the earth's crust bounded by faults and shifted to form peaks of a mountain range
• pass, mountain pass, notch — the location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks