cross-legged
adverb or adjective
ˈkrȯs-ˌle-gəd 
-ˌlā-;
-ˌlegd,
-ˌlāgd
1
: with legs crossed and knees spread wide apart
2
: with one leg placed over and across the other
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Sitting cross-legged, slouching, hunching—basically, name any habit of bad posture imaginable—even an ergonomic chair can’t stop me!
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Lauren Arzbaecher, Architectural Digest, 4 Apr. 2025
Every night, my father turned that tiny space into an office, sitting cross-legged in a wide armchair, hunched over the coffee table that held our most valuable possession, a new IBM Selectric typewriter.
—Philip J. Deloria, The Atlantic, 3 Apr. 2025
Officers then found 9-year-old Eve, the youngest Franke child, sitting cross-legged in a dark closet in Hildebrandt's house with her hair buzzed off.
—CBS News, 26 Mar. 2025
In a YouTube video posted by NASA, kids sit cross-legged in neat rows in a gymnasium at Sunita L. Williams Elementary School in Needham, Massachusetts.
—Jacob Posner, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Mar. 2025
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Lauren Arzbaecher, Architectural Digest, 4 Apr. 2025
Every night, my father turned that tiny space into an office, sitting cross-legged in a wide armchair, hunched over the coffee table that held our most valuable possession, a new IBM Selectric typewriter.
—Philip J. Deloria, The Atlantic, 3 Apr. 2025
Officers then found 9-year-old Eve, the youngest Franke child, sitting cross-legged in a dark closet in Hildebrandt's house with her hair buzzed off.
—CBS News, 26 Mar. 2025
In a YouTube video posted by NASA, kids sit cross-legged in neat rows in a gymnasium at Sunita L. Williams Elementary School in Needham, Massachusetts.
—Jacob Posner, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Mar. 2025
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“Cross-legged.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cross-legged. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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