Chair (disambiguation)

The term chair has a number of possible meanings:

• Chair, piece of furniture
• Chair, type of carriage, also called "riding chair"
• Electric chair, execution device often known as just "the chair"
• Orchestra, musician's seating position
• Chair (railway), a block supporting a rail on a sleeper
• Chair conformation, molecular structure of cyclohexane
• Chair (acrobatics), various balancing circus skills
• The Chair (game show), TV show hosted by John McEnroe
• Chair Entertainment, Aka. ChAIR, a video game developer based in Provo, Utah
• The Chairs, play by Eugène Ionesco
• Chair (Polish academic department) – a division of a university faculty devoted to a particular academic discipline
• The Chair (Aintree Racecourse), a fence at Aintree Racecource that is best known for its use in the Grand National horse race

Position

• Chair (academic) – a professorship in a university
• The "Master of Ceremonies" is referred to as the "Chair" in some organizations
• Chairperson (Rival Schools), known as Iincho (委員長, Iinchō) in Japan, is a character from the Rival Schools series of fighting games
• Chairman, the presiding officer of a meeting, organization, committee, or other deliberative body