Pulled rickshaw
（重定向自Riksha）
![Japanese rickshaws c.1897](/Images/godic/202502/07/JapaneseRickshaw0310.jpg")
![Tourists disguising as geisha girls on a rickshaw in Kyoto, Japan](/Images/godic/202502/07/Maiko-costume_tourists_on_a_rickshaw_by_andrésmh_in_Kyoto0310.jpg")
![Pousse-pousse in Madagascar](/Images/godic/202502/07/Pousse-pousse_Madagascar0310.jpg")
![Confucius (transported in a wheeled cart) and children, as imagined by a 17th-century Chinese artist; presumably, the design is similar to the vehicles used at the time. (Illustration from a children's book, Xiao er lun, printed in 1680)](/Images/godic/202502/07/Xiao_er_lun_-_Confucius_and_children0310.jpg")
A pulled rickshaw (or ricksha) is a mode of human-powered transport by which a runner draws a two-wheeled cart which seats one or two people.
In recent times the use of human-powered rickshaws has been discouraged or outlawed in many countries due to concern for the welfare of rickshaw workers. Pulled rickshaws have been replaced mainly by cycle rickshaw and auto rickshaws.