The Collaborative International Dictionary
Recliner \Re*clin"er\ (r[-e]*kl[imac]n"[~e]r), n.
One who, or that which, reclines.
Specifically: An armchair with a back that can be adjusted to lean backward, and a footrest that can be moved up to support the legs, or folded under the chair when the person is sitting up; the back and footrest are often geared so that they move together, allowing the chair to be conveniently adjusted either for sitting up or for lying back; also called a reclining chair.
WordNet
Usage examples of "reclining chair".
El dodged around a floating, reclining chair that looked more comfortable than any other seating he'd ever seen and made a dive for the door handle.
She lay limp in her reclining chair after she emerged, soaked with sweat, muscles aching from strain.
Martin Humphries leaned back in his exquisitely padded reclining chair and tried to hide the dread he felt as he gazed at his father's image on the wall screen.
Txuka moves back step by step as the warriors bring the man across the altar until he stands in front of the reclining chair structure.
I was sitting in a reclining chair, soft yet gently supportive, on a high balcony overlooking a wide turquoise sea that stretched out beyond the horizon.
Then he slowly climbed through the hatch and dropped into the pilot's reclining chair and studied the instruments embedded in the console.
The journeymen and apprentices had shown off the budding thread rolling machine and both the original up-time reclining chair and the developing Kudzu Werke version.
From a basket beneath his reclining chair, Starangh scooped many small, shiny, identical objects into those waiting palms: rune-graven ovals of metal that bulged plumply at their centers but thinned to the breadth of armor plate nigh all their edges.
He leaned his sore hand on the makeshift cane and limped past her, and she stalked faithfully after, to the lift, and rode topside to the common room, stood by while he lowered himself into a reclining chair and let the cane fall, massaging his throbbing hand.
Leaning back in the leather-covered reclining chair, Stoner realized that the WLM's operations in Africa required huge sums of money as well.