stilt
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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
Encircling the footprint of each roundhouse were "middens," haloes of rubbish dumped from the stilt village above, included broken pots, butchered animal bone, and "coprolites" or fossilised faeces.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 20, 2024
They dodged acrobats and a stilt walker and a harp player.
From "The Whipping Boy" by Sid Fleischman
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
Over half of it will be elevated -- a major concern for Alexandrians who fear the tree-lined track will be replaced by eyesore concrete stilts.
From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 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 shack creaked, swaying ever so slightly on its stilts, pond water lapping at the posts.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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