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grab bar

American  

noun

  1. a bar attached to a wall near a bathtub or shower to provide a handgrip for a person who is bathing.


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“You don’t have to be 60 years old to benefit from a grab bar in the shower,” he said.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 5, 2025

The 15-year-old tried to hold on to a grab bar.

From BBC • Jun. 7, 2023

If you can’t find a bathtub rail that works, you can install a vertical support post with a curved grab bar just outside the tub.

From Washington Post • Apr. 18, 2022

Wheelchair accessible — there are no steps — but restrooms have only one grab bar per stall.

From New York Times • Jul. 2, 2011

I reach for the iron grab bar and fling myself upward.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen