quad suit

plural quad suits · alternative quadsuit

1. slanglifestyleA type of fursuit for walking on all fours.

   Figure 42: “Quad Suits”

   2010, Chris Seabrook, “It Gives me Thunder”: Reflections on “Becoming Fur”, Library and Archives Canada, page 150

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   It was what costumers call a “quad suit,” a costume in which the performer runs around on all fours.[…]Used by street performers and in stage-shows, quad-suit performers have an uncanny knack for looking like the real thing, albeit for short periods of time.

   2014, Barton Grover Howe, The Beach is Back: A Surfland Mystery, Flying Starfish Press, →ISBN

   Charlie also discussed his desire for a quad suit. Quad suits further expand on animalistic characteristics by forcing the wearer to hunch over and simulate the act of walking on four legs.

   2017, Torie E. Lucas, “Wolves, Dragons, and Ponies… Oh My!”: Fursonas and Stigmatization in the “Human” World, thesis submitted to the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, page 70

   […]the rarer ‘quad suit’ made for the purpose of being able to walk on all fours.

   2021, Jessica Ruth Austin, Fan Identities in the Furry Fandom, Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN, page 141