chiefly British
as in pram
a small four-wheeled vehicle designed for pushing a baby around in a fun festival that appeals to adults as well as tots in pushchairs

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Recent Examples of pushchair Correspondent Serna Altschul looks at the history of strollers, prams and pushchairs, and at the designs and aesthetics of today's super-smooth strollers. David Morgan, CBS News, 18 May 2024 Riley’s custom pushchair, designed by Adaptive Star,has no gears but does have a safety brake to slow downhill runs. Diane Bell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 June 2023 Finding a travel-friendly buggy only adds to the pushchair pressure. Stirling Kelso, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 May 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pushchair
Noun
  • One person suggested Cousins return to the spot on a daily basis and try to strike up a relationship with the septuagenarian pushing the pram.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 11 May 2025
  • No trace of the 10-foot pram used by Ralph has ever been found.
    Robert E. Houle, Outdoor Life, 19 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Like the rest of the state, winters there are bitterly cold, summers are hot, muggy, and buggy.
    Paddy O'Connell, Outside Online, 1 May 2025
  • Video meetings usually work in a mobile browser, but the experience is buggy and somewhat unintuitive.
    John Brandon, PC Magazine, 15 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • My neighbors are a veterinarian who wheels around his crusty white dog in a stroller and an elderly man.
    Elise Taylor, Vogue, 13 May 2025
  • When a driver hit and killed two women pushing a baby boy in a stroller in Winnetka on Friday, Mudassir Rashid and other family members were left in shock.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 7 May 2025
Noun
  • The baby was captured sleeping on his mother's chest, stretching his limbs out while laying in a crib and sucking on a pacifier while looking at his mother.
    Kayla Grant, People.com, 11 May 2025
  • In the never-satisfied province of Quebec, which was beginning to talk about another sovereignty referendum, the electorate decided to put the toys back in the crib and get behind Carney on the assumption that there may be no Canada left to leave once Trump is done with us.
    Ian Cooper, Sun Sentinel, 5 May 2025
Noun
  • People left behind baby carriages that look like baby carriages looked in the ’50s and beer cans with pull tops that haven’t been made that way since the ’60s or ’70s.
    James Barron, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
  • As a young father pushed a baby carriage on a windy morning in Broward last week, streams of leaves and flowers cascaded down from a nearby towering oak tree.
    Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 12 Mar. 2025

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“Pushchair.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pushchair. Accessed 28 May. 2025.

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