WotD: on stilts

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1. auf Stelzen
2. op stelten
3. sobre zancos
4. sobre xanques
5. sur échasses
6. ar stiltiau, ar ystudfachau
7. ar chosa croise
8. na szczudłach
9. 죽마 위에 (竹馬 위에)
10. 踏上高蹺 tà shàng gāoqiāo
11. 竹馬に （たけうまに)

Notes: At work today, some workers were replacing ceiling titles following the completion of some lighting and HVAC upgrades. One of them was wearing a pair of industrial stilts, which fascinated a coworker of mine so much she even asked if she could try them on. (He pretended not to hear her.) Like me, she remembers stilt walking as a child. It may be thirty years since I've been up on a pair, but I think I could still stagger about for a ways (if only monshu would agree to let me try, which of course he never would).