Narrow pathway high in the air (as above a stage

Usage examples of catwalk.

On the roof of one of the center cars, a brakeman stood wide-legged on the flat catwalk.

Ramon Korbuscek, desperate to retrieve the device he had planted inside Euterpe, threw open the door to the missile silo and stepped out onto the catwalk.

A succession of nubile young models eager to parade in his furs on the Paris catwalks and also to give him solace had temporarily dulled the pain, but somehow Irena Dezov never left his mind.

Through the water streaming down the observation window, Tom got a blurred image of a wide concrete room full of catwalks and thick white pipes before the sub settled toward the horizontal and the window submerged once more.

Bright white overhead lights reflected on the water and illuminated the heavy machinery connected to the webwork of white pipes and catwalks.

Parker tied the ropes with slipknots to the railing waist-high beside the catwalk, then removed the metal weights from their wooden racks tied to the ropes.

Parker raced along the catwalk, kicking off the iron weights and yanking the slipknots on the ropes.

Leia could see the feeders--mostly of the nimbler races, like Chadra-Fan or Verpine, since mechanicals were out of the question under the circumstances--scrambling along the ropes and catwalks that stretched from bed to bed, or from the beds to the supply station, clinging amid its own luxuriant cascades of sweetberry to the cliff wall.

When he came to the door that gave access to the trusses, he unlocked it and ascended a metal staircase that let him out onto the catwalk that ran through the trusswork itself.

They had just lost their most vicious negotiator, my oldest and wiliest enemy in this business, who had toppled off a rusty catwalk into an intake pond, been sucked into a big pipe, shredded into easily digestible bits by rotating knives and processed into toxic sludge.

The wobbliness of the raised catwalk became a slick, slow yawing as the hull moved into and through the swells.

Beyond the bridge the Citadel jutted up in an overwhelming display of silvers and blacks-ramparts and turrets hung with banners, spans and iron-railed catwalks, bartizans and spires, jagged steep-sloping roofs and lush, verdant hanging gardens.

Peter made out the square bulks of covered cages below, dimly lit by incandescent bulbs at the same level as the catwalk.

Looking around, she was startled to see, one level above her, a group of small children being led along a catwalk by a trio of attentive caretakers in paint-smeared smocks.

Everyone who could pack themselves onto the catwalks was there when the sunlight suddenly forced its way past the clouds, throwing back the gloom, and the view outside the Mission appeared again.