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.

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[aelfie.livejournal.com]

Okay, take this tounge in cheek as I was "stuck" in a wheelchair for a summer during high school (amazing football injury, ask me about it if you are really interested) and this is some of the terminology I used.

Non wheelchair bound people walk, the person in the wheelchair gets to where they need to go!

The person in the wheelchair is a gimp (I was in a hip to toe cast, and that was the nickname I earned.)

Act of controlling? scoring points hitting pedestrians (which was easy to do with that foot stuck way out there!)

I like silly, it makes the universe less serious!