physically challenged

adjective

1. challenged ( def 1 ).

Example Sentences

Renovations geared toward the disabled, the physically challenged and the elderly are officially known as home modifications.

From Seattle Times

Because she is not on a standard two-wheel bike, Norton will compete next month in a division for physically challenged athletes.

From Seattle Times

Kim’s 2019 bestselling debut, “Miracle Creek,” also dealt with physically challenged children — as well as a hyperbaric chamber, a major disaster and some of the sharpest courtroom drama since Scott Turow.

From Los Angeles Times

Among the many, many tweets and online conversations, there are a few criticisms of how one of the fictional series’ characters could be construed as antisemitic, another — a “hermaphroditic” worm — could be “triggering” for nonbinary kids, and the various stray body parts could offend the physically challenged.

From Los Angeles Times

Until his death in 2007, this “obsessive, mentally and physically challenged pensioner” had, for her and many others, become an “unlikely lodestar” — the constancy of his grievances made him stand apart from the “scrolling whirligig of Hong Kong politics.”

From New York Times

Related Words

• impaired
• incapacitated