walking line

noun

1. a line on the plan of a curving staircase on which all treads are of a uniform width and that is considered to be the ordinary path taken by persons on the stair.

Example Sentences

At the heart of “Indra’s Net” is “Anthem,” a slow build that begins with a walking line in the piano, picked up by a flute and eventually every performer, gathering force to glorious beauty.

From New York Times

The insole is the same insole found in Skechers' walking line.

From Golf Digest

During a taut early episode, as hazy chords and piercing orchestral bursts sounded over an obsessively repeated walking line in the low strings, the effect was at once alluring and terrifying.

From New York Times

No Moon At All playfully unfolds as a quiet jostle of notes, and speeds up into elegantly contrapuntal, initially baroque and then jazzily tumbling melodies over Haden's plummy walking line.

From The Guardian

The guardian assured him that they were equal to anything in the walking line.

From Project Gutenberg