wheelchair user

See also: wheelchair-user

English

Alternative forms

• wheelchair-user

Noun

wheelchair user (plural wheelchair users)

1. A person who is injured or disabled and uses a wheelchair for mobility, usually long-term.
   • 2023 September 6, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Merseyrail and LNER top family-friendly survey”, in RAIL, number 991, page 15:

     "A number of companies claimed the dedicated space for wheelchairs is somehow a multi-user space. It isn't - the space for wheelchair users is prioritised for those users by law. That puts parents with pushchairs in conflict. […] A wheelchair user should not have to ask a parent with an unfolded buggy to move from that space, […] .

Synonyms

• (slang) roller

Related terms

• wheelchair sport

Translations

person who uses a wheelchair

• Czech: vozíčkář (cs) m
• Danish: rullestolsbruger c
• Dutch: rolstoelgebruiker m, rolstoelgebruikster f
• Finnish: pyörätuolin käyttäjä
• German: Rollstuhlfahrer (de) m, Rollstuhlfahrerin (de) f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: rullestolbruker m

• Persian: ویلچری (vilčeri) (informal)
• Portuguese: cadeirante (pt) m or f
• Romanian: utilizator de scaun rulant m, utilizatoare de scaun rulant f
• Russian: коля́сочник (ru) m (koljásočnik), коля́сочница (ru) f (koljásočnica)
• Swedish: rullstolsanvändare (sv) c