chairbound
Britishadjective
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There are programs for just about everyone — for the homebound, for the chairbound, for people who need to get restarted after a health setback.
From Washington Post
No amount of professional proficiency alone enables a musical to take wing and make a chairbound audience irresistibly airborne.
From Time Magazine Archive
Growing legions of chairbound executives labor through pushups on the bedroom floor at dawn, or spend their lunch hours performing similar strenuous rituals in a gym.
From Time Magazine Archive
Chairbound souls, however, will put up with a lot from an author who has been there and back, whether "there" is the top of Everest or the depths of the soul.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had a vision of Messala, chairbound like Simonides, and, like him, going abroad on the shoulders of servants.
From Project Gutenberg
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