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# footrest

«footrest» in Mova's school dictionary: **Something you rest your feet on while sitting, like a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a footrest, footrests)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Something you rest your feet on while sitting, like a small stool or a bar on a chair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/footrest/#m1)

2) A part on a bike, wheelchair, motorbike or pushchair where feet go. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/footrest/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Used in everyday life about comfortable sitting at a desk, on a sofa, in a car or in a wheelchair. In health lessons a footrest helps you sit with good posture when your feet do not reach the floor.

### examples

- My feet don't touch the floor, so I use a footrest at my desk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/footrest/#x1)
- Grandpa puts his feet on the footrest after a long walk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/footrest/#x2)
- The wheelchair has two footrests that fold up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/footrest/#x3)
- The dentist's chair has a soft footrest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/footrest/#x4)
- Keep your feet on the footrests of the motorbike. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/footrest/#x5)
- We used an old box as a footrest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/footrest/#x6)

### note

Countable; one word. Also «footstool» for a small low seat for the feet.

### In the corpora

- [When you sit, your back should be supported and your feet flat on the floor or a footrest.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/8-posture-and-screens/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «footrest» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/footrest/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.