1: wheels or rides (the former if the person is it's muscle-powered and the person using the chair is providing that power; the latter for a powered chair or one pushed by someone else). 2: wheelchair user 3: chair 4: steering or wheeling feels best.
I'd also be a little careful, if the chair is being pushed by someone else: "pushed Chris's wheelchair" is better than "pushed Chris", though "the nurse wheeled my cousin down to the OR" is also reasonable.
I don't know how much distinction there is in usage between someone who uses a wheelchair longterm and someone who is using one temporarily or briefly: the hospital patient in the example above, or someone who ordinarily uses a cane or walker but is being pushed through an airport in a wheelchair.
And there's the usage I warned about a paragraph earlier, but "in a wheelchair" feels appropriate in that context and seems to call for that verb.
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1: wheels or rides (the former if the person is it's muscle-powered and the person using the chair is providing that power; the latter for a powered chair or one pushed by someone else).
2: wheelchair user
3: chair
4: steering or wheeling feels best.
I'd also be a little careful, if the chair is being pushed by someone else: "pushed Chris's wheelchair" is better than "pushed Chris", though "the nurse wheeled my cousin down to the OR" is also reasonable.
I don't know how much distinction there is in usage between someone who uses a wheelchair longterm and someone who is using one temporarily or briefly: the hospital patient in the example above, or someone who ordinarily uses a cane or walker but is being pushed through an airport in a wheelchair.
And there's the usage I warned about a paragraph earlier, but "in a wheelchair" feels appropriate in that context and seems to call for that verb.