three-legged

Having three supports

Three-legged describes something having three legs: a three-legged stool, a three-legged dog.

A three-legged race is the picnic game where two people run with adjacent legs tied together, creating a three-legged unit.

The term often implies improvisation or impairment—a stool built that way, an animal that lost one.

furniture

stool

Backless sitting furniture

  • tableHorizontal furniture surface
  • standUpright support structure
  • antiqueOld valued collectible

wooden · vintage · craftsman · Celtic · cauldron · pot · trivet · ottoman · pedestal · rustic

tripod

camera

Image capturing device

mount · easel · surveying · monopod · ballhead · gimbal · leveling · panning · tilting · swivel

unstable

wobbly

Tending to teeter

unsteady · tippy · lopsided · unbalanced · tottering · toppling · shaky · uneven · makeshift · broken

race

relay

Stage-by-stage transmission

tug-of-war · bonding · cooperation · sportsmanship · challenge · hobbled · stumbling · synchronization

creature

dog

Domesticated barking mammal

resilient · adaptive · hopping · injured · survivor · prosthetic · disability · shelter · adopted · heartwarming

Opposites
number of legs/supports

three-leggedfour-legged

With four limbs below

quadrupedal · two-legged · bipedal · six-legged · eight-legged

presence vs absence of legs

three-leggedlegless

Having no limbs

no-legged · limbless · serpentine

Family

three, third, triple, triangle, tripod, legged, trilogy, threefold, three-legged race

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