Walks a runway, e.g

Usage examples of struts.

Daeman turned to watch a score of voynix scrambling up the huge wheels, battering at the metal mesh, pulling at the struts and braces.

Half a dozen persistent voynix still clung to the struts and were hacking away at the metal, clawing at the spinning wheels.

Then the six huge wheels hit the ground, the struts absorbed most of the shock and stabilized them, and they drove straight ahead down into the Basin, headlights and searchlights still stabbing white cones out of the darkness.

Daeman guessed that a machine with smaller wheels, less flexible struts, or less motor power would have been carried away to the west.

Rich evening sunlight prismed off the passenger sphere and made the high, articulated struts glow.

Most of the glowing objects they were rising toward so quickly, the wiggling, writhing thread of lightning still pitching up and away from them as they rode it higher, were complex structures of struts and cables and long glass tubes, more like antennae than orbital houses.

I watched as she fitted herself into the harness of the rocket pack, then I lashed Samuelson to one of the metal struts, Bill to another.

Stopped at the bowling alley to see how the ceiling struts were holding up after 23 years.