The word 'gaiters' is correct and can be used in written English.
Gaiters are a type of protective covering for the lower legs or feet, typically worn over shoes and pants to protect from wet weather or rough terrain. Example: "The hiker wore gaiters over her hiking boots to keep out the mud and rocks on the trail."
But I wear gaiters for running in the sand, and I will use a GPS when necessary.
There are scrawny ultras with their desert caps and ankle gaiters as well as jokey groups of walkers with sticks and cagoules.
In the final chapter a group of old friends in a café are disturbed by the entrance of a young man in leather gaiters who announces that "a new German people's government has been established".
SITTING on the Woolsack resplendent in his wig, gaiters and buckles, the Lord Chancellor is a throwback to Britain's feudal past.
When he was able to purchase a chair of this sort, dealers pityingly confided that curiosities of that sort, had vanished with the buffalo lap robe and congress gaiters.
They do a brisk traffic in body parts — dismembering the arms and legs of old suits and repurposing them as scarves or gaiters.
Inside, the plastics are hard and tough but there are trappings of indulgence: a fake leather gaiter for the stubby gear lever, metal-look rims for the overlapping instruments, and a properly integrated stereo.
Even though the camera was turned outward, filled mainly by the sight of the terrain sliding past, it provided, more than anything, a glimpse into the mind of a dreamy and quiet boy — who, to my eyes, during the day, had been just a nose, his features and expressions otherwise hidden by helmet, neck gaiter, and goggles.
They are gaiter, goiter, and aigret.
I then wear a neck gaiter, wind-stopper balaclava and down-filled face mask.
Oh, he's a hardy soul," called out one of the assembled, Dave Jordan, a pair of ski goggles hanging around his black neck gaiter and a headlamp shining from his helmet.
