riot stairs

Definitions

A flight of stairs that is constructed to deliberately disrupt the natural strides of people walking or running on them.

plural, plural-only

Examples

“It is slightly believable because the stairs are all riot stairs. In other words the stairs are all diagonal so if you walk⟳ straight up them you run⟳ into a wall.”

“The construction of riot stairs and observational offices at the University of Kentucky as pre-emptive measures aimed at diffusing future dissent proved more stimulating to dialogue than, say⟳, a topic like⟳ "repression" or "authority" in the generic register⟳.”

“Walking the riot stairs and lounging on the wide lawn in front of Patterson Office Tower, our students could feel⟳ the continued presence of the state's reactive measures to a moment of student power organizing their own⟳ bodily movements 30 years later.”

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