folding chair

American  

noun

1. a chair that can be collapsed flat for easy storage or transport.

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Etymology

Origin of folding chair

First recorded in 1670–80

Example Sentences

I was at the top of the heap in the movie business and still felt that I was watching from a folding chair in Wassenaar.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

Alijah Arenas sank into a folding chair, his face buried in a towel, his breathing heavy.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026

Once it was over and most had left the school’s low-slung football stadium, Berkeley’s chancellor, Carol Christ, sat near the podium in a folding chair.

From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2024

“We tell the kids, ‘Don’t do burnouts here,’” Lopez’s 60-year-old mother, Natalia, said in Spanish, sitting on a folding chair between tall stacks of used tires at the business named after her grandson.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2024

I sat in a metal folding chair on the edge of the room until the song was over.

From "The Lions of Little Rock" by Kristin Levine