riot stairsとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

riot stairs pl (複数形 only)

1. A flight of stairs that is constructed to deliberately disrupt the natural strides of people walking or running on them.
   • 1994 December 14, Tim Gray, “The Myth of the Prison Builder”, in alt.folklore.college, Usenet:

     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.

   • 2007 Fall, Jonathan Vincent & Danny Mayer, “Teaching radicalism from the university archives”, in Radical Teacher, number 79:

     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.

   • 2009, Douglas Reichert Powell & ‎John Paul Tassoni, Composing Other Spaces, ISBN 1572737867, page 118:

     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.