rocking chair
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of rocking chair
An Americanism dating back to 1750–60
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
I’d rather have a big pile of Benjamins when I’m ready for my rocking chair.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 27, 2026
The school takes advantage of all the free resources it can get, and adopted a rocking chair for a reading corner.
From BBC • Dec. 27, 2025
As the Bulwark pointed out, there was 2023 e-outrage over Cracker Barrel’s acknowledgment of Pride month, which included a rainbow-themed rocking chair and some corporate-speak about “diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging at Cracker Barrel.”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2025
"Some of us are just made that way. We are not made to sit in a rocking chair and knit," KlimaSeniorinnen member Elisabeth Stern, 76, told BBC News.
From Salon • Apr. 10, 2024
There is only one glass cage here, and inside it is a gray-haired man in a rocking chair facing away from me.
From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
