chairbound

/ ˈtʃɛəˌbaʊnd /

adjective

1. social welfare unable to walk; dependent on a wheelchair for mobility

Example Sentences

There are programs for just about everyone — for the homebound, for the chairbound, for people who need to get restarted after a health setback.

From Washington Post

No amount of professional proficiency alone enables a musical to take wing and make a chairbound audience irresistibly airborne.

From Time Magazine Archive

Growing legions of chairbound executives labor through pushups on the bedroom floor at dawn, or spend their lunch hours performing similar strenuous rituals in a gym.

From Time Magazine Archive

Chairbound souls, however, will put up with a lot from an author who has been there and back, whether "there" is the top of Everest or the depths of the soul.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had a vision of Messala, chairbound like Simonides, and, like him, going abroad on the shoulders of servants.

From Project Gutenberg