🪵 A stick figure toy 🧍 A line figure 🦴 A very thin person

stickman

1 3.9

A simple drawing of a person made with lines and a circle for the head

noun
/ˈstɪkˌmæn/

: muñeco de palitos

In the animation, the stickman character jumped around joyfully.

Examples

STICKMAN:

Capone (1975)
STICKMAN:

Capone (1975)
The stickman is just trying to do his job.

Runner Runner (2013)
- For making that stickman.

Walking Tall (2004)
The children drew a stickman on the sidewalk with chalk.
She decorated the birthday card with a cute stickman illustration.

Synonyms

figure

vsstickman

475 3.1

The shape of a person's body

refers specifically to a simple human line drawing with circle head

stick figure

vsstickman

11 2.6

A very simple drawing of a person using a circle for the head and lines for body, arms and legs

is limited to simple human drawings rather than including animals

How Detailed

portrait

65 4.0

drawing

200 1.0

to sketch

66 3.0

stickman

1 3.9

scribble

10 3.5

Surface Forms

stickman singular

stickmen plural

Morphology

stickman = stick + man (transparent) = stick + man

Literal compound of 'stick' + 'man' describing a simple drawn human figure; the meaning follows directly from the components.

Etymology

Stickman comes from stick ('a thin piece of wood or a line') and man ('person'), because the simple drawing looks like a person made of sticks. So a stickman is a very simple human drawing made with lines for the body and a circle for the head.