gaming chair

noun

A type of ergonomic chair specifically designed and marketed for video gamers to provide comfort during an extended gaming session.

Meanings

noungaming chair (plural gaming chairs)

plural gaming chairs

  1. A type of ergonomic chair specifically designed and marketed for video gamers to provide comfort during an extended gaming session.

    Two floors above, a young Sellafield employee sat in a gaming chair, working at a laptop with a joystick. He was manoeuvring an ROV fitted with a toilet brush – “a regular brush, bought at the store,” he said, “just kind of reinforced with a bit of plastic tube”.

    December 15 2022, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian

Translations

Chinese Mandarin 電競椅 /电竞椅
  • 電競椅 /电竞椅 (diànjìngyǐ)Translations
Cite this entry
APA

gaming chair. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gaming%20chair

MLA

“gaming chair.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gaming%20chair. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “gaming chair,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gaming%20chair.

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