wheelchair

• wheel-chair

From wheel +‎ chair.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈwiːlt͡ʃɛə(ɹ)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈ(h)wilt͡ʃɛɹ/

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wheelchair (plural wheelchairs)

2. A chair mounted on large wheels for the transportation or use of a sick or disabled person.
   • 2021 January 13, Paul Clifton, “Island Line bids farewell to 1930s "icon of transport"...”, in Rail, page 9:

     "And there are aspirations that we must rightly meet - people travelling in a wheelchair should be able to get on and off the train."

3. (attributive) Designed for use by wheelchairbound people.
4. (by extension) Any device involving wheels designed to assist a non-human animal with locomotion.
   • 2020 March 1, Gabe Bergado, “Watch this tortoise zip around town in a giant wheelchair”, in The Daily Dot:

     To build the wheelchair, Dale Ryder attached wheels from a toy plane to an axle that fits over Mrs. T’s shell.

• See wheelchairbound. The expressions bound to a wheelchair and confined to a wheelchair are offensive, as wheelchairs are intended as freedom enhancers.

• → Persian: ویلچر (vilčer)

wheelchair (third-person singular simple present wheelchairs, present participle wheelchairing, simple past and past participle wheelchaired)

1. to move using a wheelchair
   • 1991, Gosta Blennow, Jaak Jaeken, Lars Martin Wiklund, “Neurological Findings in the Carbohydrate-deficient Glycoprotein Syndrome”, in Acta Paediatrica‎^[1], volume 80, number s375, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 14–20:

     Almost all of them learned wheelchairing and all learned to manage to eat by themselves.

   • 1996 May 14, “'Human Race'raises fundsfor charit”, in BYU Daily Universe‎^[2]:

     People who took part walked, jogged, ran, rollerbladed and wheelchaired the five kilometers

   • 1996 June 2, “3,000 JOIN SPIRITED WALK TO HELP RAISE FUNDS IN FIGHT WITH CANCER”, in scholar.lib.vt.edu‎^[3]:

     They strolled, ran, walked and wheelchaired the track.

• Merlin chair
• rolling chair