four legs

Chair's ground contact

Four legs describes animals that walk on four limbs—dogs, cats, horses, cows.

The phrase often distinguishes quadrupeds from humans or birds: Anything with four legs is welcome at this vet clinic.

In furniture, four legs provides stability: a table on four legs.

The phrase echoes Orwell's *Animal Farm*: Four legs good, two legs bad.

Related
  • quadrupedFour-limbed walker
  • tableHorizontal furniture surface
  • chairSingle-person sitting furniture
  • dogDomesticated barking mammal
  • catSmall furry housepet

good boy · horse · cow · stable · paws · hooves · trot · gallop · crawl · mammal · creature · beast · sturdy · grounded · stable footing · animal · pet · furniture

Categories
Opposites
number of legs/limbs

four legstwo legs

bipedal · legless · eight legs · two-legged · biped

mobility method

four legslegless

Having no limbs

limbless · slithering · serpentine · crawling · swimming

Family

four, fours, fourth, fourths, fourthly, fourteen, fourteenth, forty, fortieth

Familiarity
Top 50,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G