rocking chair

English

Alternative forms

• rocking-chair

A rocking chair.

Etymology

rocking +‎ chair

Noun

rocking chair (plural rocking chairs)

1. A chair with a curved base which can be gently rocked (swung) back and forth.

Derived terms

• nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs
• rocking-chair money

Translations

chair with a curved base which can be gently rocked

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: ճոճաթոռ (hy) (čočatʻoṙ)
• Basque: kulunkaulki
• Catalan: balancí (ca) m
• Chinese: 摇椅 (zh) (yáoyǐ)

  Cantonese: 搖椅／摇椅 (jiu⁴ ji²)

  Mandarin: 搖椅／摇椅 (zh) (yáoyǐ)

• Czech: houpací křeslo n
• Danish: gyngestol (da) c
• Dutch: schommelstoel (nl)
• Esperanto: lulseĝo, balancoseĝo
• Estonian: kiiktool
• Faroese: ruggustólur m
• Finnish: keinutuoli (fi), kiikkutuoli (fi)
• French: chaise à bascule (fr) f (France), fauteuil à bascule (fr) m (France), berçante (fr) f (Quebec), rocking chair (fr) m (France)
• Galician: randeeira (gl) f, arrendeeira (gl) f
• German: Schaukelstuhl (de) m
• Greek: κουνιστή καρέκλα f (kounistí karékla)
• Hebrew: כיסא נדנדה m (kisé nadnéda)
• Hindi: झूलकुर्सी m (jhūlkursī)
• Hungarian: hintaszék (hu)
• Icelandic: ruggustóll
• Ido: baskulostulo (io)
• Indonesian: kursi goyang (id)
• Irish: cathaoir luasctha f, cathaoir luascáin f
• Italian: sedia a dondolo f
• Japanese: ロッキングチェア (rokkingu chea), 揺り椅子 (ゆりいす, yuriisu)
• Korean: 흔들 의자 (heundeul uija)
• Lower Sorbian: hympaty stoł m
• Macedonian: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian: дүүжин сандал (düüžin sandal)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gyngestol (no) m

  Nynorsk: gyngestol m

• Papiamentu: stul di zoya
• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Plautdietsch: Schockelstool m, Jenjelstool m
• Polish: fotel bujany m, fatersztul (pl) m (Silesian)
• Portuguese: cadeira de balanço f
• Romanian: balansoar (ro)
• Romansch: sutga da ballabaina f
• Russian: кре́сло-кача́лка (ru) n (kréslo-kačálka)
• Scottish Gaelic: cathair shiùdanach f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: столица за љуљање, ^{(please verify)} ljuljača f

  Roman: stolica za ljuljanje

• Spanish: mecedora (es) f
• Sranan Tongo: boboisturu
• Swedish: gungstol (sv)
• Tagalog: tumba-tumba
• Telugu: ఊగేచేరు (ūgēcēru)
• Turkish: sallanan sandalye
• Ukrainian: крі́сло-го́йдалка n (kríslo-hójdalka)
• Vietnamese: ghế rocking
• Welsh: cadair siglo f, cadeiriau siglo f pl

See also

• rocking horse
• rocking stool