stilt

The National Endowment for the Arts had a couple of stilt dancers from New Orleans.

From Slate ● Jul. 1, 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

Mrs. Cripe didn’t ring up a stilt after the farm women left, so they may have come in just for the toothpicks.

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck

While Major League Baseball has been sweating over pitch clocks, ghost runners and the Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System, the Savannah Bananas have been juggling, dancing, cartwheeling along the baselines and running to first on stilts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026

In others, like the one in which Estevez lives, the balconies and upper floors are propped up by wooden stilts.

From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026

To avoid our planet’s environmental inconveniences, the stilts can rise above any inclement weather.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 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

An indoor ladder grew stilts, turned into stairs.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen