noun
air chair; wall sit
An exercise or prank where one mimics sitting in a chair without actual support, often against a wall.
体育の授業で空気椅子をやらされた。
We were made to do wall sits in PE class.
空気椅子は太ももに効くトレーニングだ。
The air chair is a training that works the thighs.
noun
chain of people sitting on laps
A party game or stunt where people sit in a circle on each other's laps, forming a self-supporting chain.
合宿で空気椅子をして遊んだ。
We played the lap-sitting chain game at the training camp.
Standard kanji spelling.
Variant with katakana イス.
Compound of 空気 (air) and 椅子 (chair), literally 'air chair'. The term describes the illusion of sitting without a real chair.