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freedom on bearings, mistaken for limitation by everyone who's never used one
means A chair mounted on wheels that lets a person who can't walk, or walks with difficulty, move around under their own or another's power.
from A plain English compound of "wheel" and "chair," both ancient words doing exactly what they say — "wheel" from Old English "hweol," a cousin of words across the Indo-European family all circling back to a sense of turning, and "chair" arriving via Old French "chaiere" from Latin "cathedra," a seat. The joined word is recorded from the 17th century, when wheeled invalid chairs began appearing; the famously stylish "Bath chair," named for the spa town where the ailing were trundled to take the waters, came later.
- speed record
- racing chairs top 30 mph downhill
- ancient roots
- China carved wheeled chairs around 525 AD
- royal first
- King Philip II of Spain had one in 1595
- sport empire
- wheelchair basketball debuted at 1960 Paralympics
- lightweight now
- some chairs weigh under 10 pounds
nick vujicic — motivational speaker born without limbs who uses a wheelchair, has 12+ million youtube followers
eddie hall strongman — british powerlifter won world's strongest man 2017, uses wheelchair due to spinal injury