stilt

As we neared the lagoon, a black-winged stilt flew alongside the car, trailing its legs behind it.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

This year's carnival featured musical performances, bedazzled horses, huge dragons and dancing stilt walkers.

From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2026

It’s shifted over the years — there were stilt walkers for a bit, and Sawdust’s historical site notes there was once a mascot in “Jelf,” part jester, part elf.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2025

A major report on the remains of a stilt village that was engulfed in flames almost 3,000 years ago reveals in unprecedented detail the daily lives of England's prehistoric fenlanders.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 20, 2024

“Stay stilt grunted the dwarf, grabbing hold of Harry’s bag and pulling him back. “Let me go!”

From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling

Standing on stilts near the top of the canyon, it is surrounded by brush and dirt on either side and is more than 200 feet from the nearest house north of Mulholland.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

Many of Raja's community, more widely known as the Onge, still live in near isolation in neat thatched homes on stilts in coastal forests.

From Barron's ● May 18, 2026

At the Blind Tiger, one of a number of bars on stilts along the waterfront, I ordered one and asked a group at the bar who made the town’s best.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 7, 2026

The Mother Ginger sequence, which usually finds young dancers emerging from the giant skirt of a dancer on stilts, is completely reimagined here.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2025

The stilts that the shack is on are rotting, and I don’t know how they’re holding it up.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas