Rocking Chair

Definition: Rocking Chair

Rocking Chair

Noun

1. A chair mounted on rockers.

Synonym: Rocking Chair

Synonym: rocker (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Support	Seat, throne, dais; divan, musnud; chair, bench, form, stool, sofa, settee, stall; arm chair, easy chair, elbow chair, rocking chair; couch, fauteuil, woolsack, ottoman, settle, squab, bench; aparejo, faldstool, horn; long chair, long sleeve chair, morris chair; lamba chauki, lamba kursi; saddle, pannel, pillion; side saddle, pack saddle; pommel.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Rocking Chair

English words defined with "rocking chair": Boston rocker ♦ platform rocker ♦ shoofly. (references)

Specialty definitions using "rocking chair": Rocking-chair. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Rocking Chair" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (rocking chair, rockingchair).

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Worrying is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere (Van Wilder; writing credit: Brent Goldberg; David Wagner)
Clever	You are getting old when you get the same sensation from a rocking chair that you once got from a roller coaster. (references; author: unknown)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Beaver Dam Rocking Chair Marathon (Books 1 & 2) (reference) From the Rocking Chair (reference) Great-Grandma's Rocking Chair (reference) Lessons from the Rocking Chair (reference) Lullaby and Goodnight Rocking Chair (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Red Rocking Chair (reference) Rocking Chair Blues (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Pictured is a family scene, with a mother reading a story to several children. She is seated in a rocking chair and they are surrounding her on the floor in a family room setting. These people are part of a Mormon family. The Mormons are presently being studied for their low cancer death rate, well below the national average. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).		[A woman in a rocking chair with a child]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	Elderly African American woman seated on rocking chair, at foot of bed, next to stove, in North Carolina] / Billy Barnes for the North Carolina Fund. Credit: Library of Congress.		Washington, D.C. Rocking chair used by President Lincoln in Ford's Theater. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Colonial-style interior with fireplace and rocking chair. Credit: Library of Congress.		Interior with fireplace and rocking chair. Credit: Library of Congress.
	One of L.H. Nissen's children in rocking chair. Nissen shack near Dickens, Iowa. Nissen is a hired man. Credit: Library of Congress.		"The old rocking chair has got him." Everything from crutches to crockery is on display at Hardwick's victory store. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Woman seated in rocking chair, Eatonville, Fla., facing forward, taken during the Lomax, Hurston, Barnicle 1935 expedition to Georgia, Florida and the Bahamas. Credit: Library of Congress.		Man seated in rocking chair, facing forward, Eatonville, Fla., taken during the Lomax, Hurston, Barnicle 1935 expedition to Georgia, Florida and the Bahamas. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Author	Quotation
President Lyndon B. Johnson	We don't propose to sit here in our rocking chair with our hands folded and let the Communists set up any government in the Western Hemisphere.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "rocking chair": rock in a rocking chair. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "rocking chair"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		karrige lëkundëse (rocker), këmbë djepi lëkundëse (rocker). (various references)

Arabic		‏كرسي متأرجح, ‏الكرسي الهزاز. (various references)

Bulgarian		стол-люлка (rocker). (various references)

Czech		houpací křeslo (rocker). (various references)

Danish		Epstein's gyngestol (Epstein rocking chair). (various references)

French		rocking chair (rockingchair), fauteuil � bascule (rocker). (various references)

German		Schaukelstuhl (rocker, rockingchair). (various references)

Greek		κινητή καρέκλα (rocker), κινητή πολυθρόνα (rocker). (various references)

Hebrew		כסא � �"� �"�" (rocker). (various references)

Hungarian		hintaszék (rocker). (various references)

Indonesian		kursi goyang. (various references)

Italian		sedia a dondolo (rocker, rockingchair), dondolo. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		ロシア文字 (lock, locker, locker room, lock-file, Lockheed, locking, lockout, logic, logic analyzer, logic programming, logical, logistics, loss, loss leader, loss of time, lost, lost ball, Lost Generation, lost time, rhodium, Rochester, rock, rock fiber, rock music, rock 'n' roll, rock wool, rock-climbing, rocking, rockoon, rose, Rosetta Stone, rosette, Rossignol, roster, Russian character). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ロッキングチェア . (various references)

Manx		caair leaystagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		ockingray airchay.(various references)

Portuguese		cadeira de balanço (rocker). (various references)

Romanian		balansoar (rocker). (various references)

Russian		качалка (rocker). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		stolica za ljuljanje (rocker). (various references)

Spanish		mecedora (rocker). (various references)

Swedish		gungstol (rocker, rocking-chair). (various references)

Turkish		salıncaklı koltuk. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-c-g-h-i-i-k-n-o-r-r"
	-2 letters: cochairing.
	-4 letters: chairing, charking, charring, chirking, chirring, chocking, choiring, choragic, coaching, cracking, cricking, croaking, crocking, hoicking, roaching.
	-5 letters: acronic, arching, arcking, caching, carking, carrion, carroch, chagrin, charing, chicano, choking, choragi, choring, chronic, cochair, cocking, corking, gnocchi, hacking, harking, hocking, ochring, organic, racking, ricking, roaring, rocking.
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Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
rocking chair	1,451	oak rocking chair	15
rocking chair cushion	167	discount rocking chair	14
rocking chair pad	134	patio rocking chair	13
child rocking chair	107	plastic rocking chair	13
glider rocking chair	86	mission rocking chair	12
outdoor rocking chair	82	double rocking chair	10
antique rocking chair	81	rope rocking chair	10
upholstered rocking chair	60	nursery rocking chair	10
wooden rocking chair	59	adult rocking chair	9
wood rocking chair	50	old rocking chair	9
folding rocking chair	40	platform rocking chair	9
porch rocking chair	35	gliding rocking chair	9
wicker rocking chair	31	unfinished rocking chair	9
kid rocking chair	22	log rocking chair	9
rocking chair plan	21	amish rocking chair	9
childs rocking chair	20	unique rocking chair	8
resin rocking chair	20	windsor rocking chair	8
baby rocking chair	20	rocking chair picture	8
white rocking chair	17	leather rocking chair	8
rocking chair sale	15	wholesale rocking chair	8
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Rocking Chair

Definition: Rocking Chair

Rocking Chair

Noun

Synonym: Rocking Chair

Synonyms within Context: Rocking Chair

Support

Crosswords: Rocking Chair

Modern Usage: Rocking Chair

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President Lyndon B. Johnson

Expression: Rocking Chair

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Modern Translation: Rocking Chair

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