cross one's legs

English

Verb

cross one's legs (third-person singular simple present crosses one's legs, present participle crossing one's legs, simple past and past participle crossed one's legs)

1. (intransitive) To place one leg over the other, especially while sitting down.
   • 2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 49, in Nick, New York, Boston, London: Little, Brown and Company, page 253:

     She lifted the top mattress and removed the sack and tossed it on the bed, anxious to count the booty. Sat down on the bed and crossed her legs and she loosened the drawstring and turned the sack upside down and shook.

Translations

place one leg over the other

• French: croiser les jambes
• German: die Beine übereinanderschlagen
• Italian: accavallare le gambe, incrociare le gambe
• Spanish: cruzar las piernas
• Tagalog: magde-kuwatro
• Ukrainian: схре́щувати но́ги impf (sxréščuvaty nóhy), схрести́ти но́ги pf (sxrestýty nóhy)

See also

• cross one's arms