escalator antics

Hi,
Absolutely not. What's an 'escalator belt'?
An 'escalator' is a moving staircase, eg in a store. Is that what you mean?
Best wishes, Clive

Yes. An escalator is pulled by two belts, one on each side, that moves in circles.
Obviously belt is not the right term. Do you need more explanation?

Hi,
Yes, please. I really have no idea what you are talking about.

Is she lying on a moving staircase, eg in a department store?

Clive

This is really hard for me. It's the very reason I asked for help.

The woman was in a department store and usually, at each floor there's at least one set of escalators, one going up, the other going down side by side. In the middle of the escalator is a small gap, probably smaller than the width of an average human body. The woman lay between the two escalators and because the gap is sm

Hi,
A strange situation indeed!
In my experience, there is always a rail at each side of each escalator, to prevent such problems.

However, if such a thing happened, wouldn't the 'down' escalator take that part of her down, and the 'up' escalator take the other part of her up? I don't see why she would spin.

Clive

I see your problem now. It's a matter of physics, at least I hope it's not a grammatical problem.

Let's imagine flat escalators like what we have at airports, the ones travellers walk on. Let's say there are two 'escalators' (I don't know what to call them -they don't escalate -If you know, please tell me) side by side and as we all know, each escalator has two rails, one at each side. Le

Hi,
No. But, as you say, we are getting off into the realm of physics rather than of grammar.
In summary, I think the point is that such matters require quite a lot of detailed explanation, don't they?

Best wishes, Clive

It's supposed to be a simple trick. And I just want to know how to describe it in simple English for my reader without getting in