Wheelchair vocabulary

[cjsmith]

I need vocabulary!

The person not in a wheelchair "walks"; the person in a wheelchair ___________ (rides, wheels, rolls, ???).
A person in a wheelchair is a ______________ (wheelchair user, ???).
A short word for a wheelchair is ______________ (???).
The act of controlling and steering a wheelchair is called ________________ (driving, steering, wheeling, ???).

I'm half tempted to say "wheelie" for just about all of these. I wheelie, you wheelie, he/she/it wheelies. (Or maybe just I wheel, etc.) I am a wheelie, I got my wheelie out of the car, I'm wheelie-ing (wheeliing? why not, "skiing" gets away with the double i). Tempting as it is, however, I couldn't possibly, you see. It would be silly.

Comments

[allanh.livejournal.com]

I've always a person in a wheelchair rolls or wheels.
A person in a wheelchair is a wheelie or a wheeler.
A short word for a wheelchair is: 'chair or wheelchair or racing chair.
The act of controlling a wheelchair is called piloting (hi, Rob!), steering, wheeling, or driving.

You might check out weelz's journal, and tell her I suggested you ask her, since she's in a wheelchair.