wheelchair

plural wheelchairs · alternative wheel-chair

1. A chair mounted on large wheels for the transportation or use of a sick or disabled person.

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

   2021 January 13, Paul Clifton, “Island Line bids farewell to 1930s "icon of transport"...”, in Rail, page 9

2. attributiveDesigned for use by wheelchairbound people.
3. broadlyAny device involving wheels designed to assist a nonhuman animal with locomotion.

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

   2020 March 1, Gabe Bergado, “Watch this tortoise zip around town in a giant wheelchair”, in The Daily Dot

present singular third person wheelchairs · participle present wheelchairing · participle past wheelchaired · past wheelchaired · alternative wheel-chair

1. intransitivesometimestransitiveTo move using a wheelchair.

   They strolled, ran, walked and wheelchaired the track.

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

   2 more examples

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

   1991, Gosta Blennow, Jaak Jaeken, Lars Martin Wiklund, “Neurological Findings in the Carbohydrate-deficient Glycoprotein Syndrome”, in Acta Paediatrica, volume 80, number s375, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 14–20

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

   1996 May 14, “'Human Race'raises fundsfor charit”, in BYU Daily Universe