The word "stairs" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe a set of steps leading from one level of a building to another, or when referring to the act of climbing or descending steps. Example sentence: The baby took his first steps as he cautiously descended the stairs.
A photo of Robert Mugabe falling down the stairs has spread like wildfire online after the 90-year-old Zimbabwe president took a tumble outside Harare airport, where he had been speaking to supporters.
One teacher told the Observer: "Girls hitching up their skirts is not new, but it is getting worse, and the skirts are getting so high that male teachers are constantly saying they are embarrassed by the sight of female underwear in the corridors and especially on the stairs".
Humayun recaptured the fort 15 years later, but soon after tripped down the stairs of the library and died.
I climb the scaffolding stairs to a vantage point in the huge space of the HangarBicocca, a former industrial complex owned by Pirelli in Milan.
Apart from the dysfunctional escalator at the Grant Road skywalk, there is no alternative to the 10 metres of stairs up to the platform, which makes it very difficult for senior citizens or those with disabilities to use them.
"Recently I did a kids' party in a house, I'm changing back into my clothes upstairs, the mum is at the bottom of the stairs giving out party bags and when I come down with my suitcase she grabs me and starts shaking me by the throat.
The cage is back beneath the stairs, the puppy collar has been scrubbed and the urine-cleaner is ready.
And I'm living in an apartment with stairs.' 'What have been the psychological effects?' 'I didn't want to go out after it happened.' She sighs, looks down and smiles, suddenly, wrongly, embarrassed at her perceived weakness.
He did threaten to call his little boy Slinky as he was born out of a tumble down the stairs, but Mick's not one to rush names.
He bounds back up the stairs from the car park and sits again, lip duly salved.
Pujan thinks people in Mumbai don't have time to climb five flights of stairs to buy fruit and vegetables.
