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

So as soon as she pulled away to meet a cosmetology client, he planted a white plastic folding chair in the middle of the empty spot.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026

The Robles’ 76-year-old grandson Louis Jr. is keeping track of today’s Christmas tree delivery from a folding chair, wearing horn-rim glasses, slacks and a white, open-neck dress shirt.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2025

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

After the movie ended and the lights came on to illuminate the murals of Tuscany and the painted classical galleries around us, Leper still sat amazed in his folding chair.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles