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moving stairway

n. a stairway whose steps move continuously on a circulating belt [syn: escalator, moving staircase]

Usage examples of "moving stairway".

Past there, he climbed a moving stairway that wasn'tit had been under repair since the day he arrived.

He held nto the lifeline and made his way to the moving stairway, which he leaped aboard and climbed while holding onto the railing with both hands.

Access to the lower level of the great house-cell was by a moving stairway similar to an escalator, and riding down on this, they kept their flashlight beams playing, and several times shot at inquisitive heads.

After a final up-and-down ride over the top of the inner ring, we were finally spilled by a moving stairway into a big square room, partitioned off into dozens of small work cubicles.

Amanda hesitated and pulled Rayford back from the moving stairway.

The long moving stairway that was the motospiral was useful only for short climbs or drops of two or three levels at most.