The word 'stilts' is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to a pair of long, slender poles or posts used to raise a person or structure above the ground. Example: The circus performer walked confidently on stilts, impressing the audience with her balance and agility. In this sentence, 'stilts' is used to describe the long poles or posts the performer is using to elevate herself off the ground.
Sal restaurant, one of the best in the area, sits on stilts at the head of the beach – book for lunch.
In Sri Lanka I have stared out from an unnamed beach shack on stilts at the aquamarine waters of the Indian Ocean and watched fishermen haul in their catch for the day's shellfish curry.
Robbie Williams is thinking of buying some stilts because they might look quite funny in a video.
The mile-long turn-off to Cabier Vision looked as if someone had been open-cast mining on it, but at the end was another unspoiled beach overlooked by a couple of discreet wooden chalets on stilts.
A beautiful spa, daily yoga classes and beachside seafood restaurant have all been added, along with rooms built on stilts over the ocean, honeymoon suites, rock star villas … Yet Jake's is still far and away the best beachside hotel in Jamaica for less than £100 a night.
The structure stands on stilts in a park and visitors enter across a long wooden footbridge.
This is part of Mumbai's best-kept secret the Eastern Freeway, a new road stretching all the way down the city's east coast, on the opposite side from the Sea Link, using tunnels and stilts.
Chickens scratch around under huts that sit on stilts to guard against flooding when the river bursts its banks.
One of Mr Copeland's colleagues recently broke his stilts in a fall.
Others were fitted with stilts in the form of pig-bristles glued to their feet.
Then England's northern cities became bywords for modernism, from the pop stars of Merseyside to the architecturally daring shopping centre and office towers of Manchester, and the motorways on stilts of Birmingham.
