The phrase "within reaching distance" is correct and can be used in written English.
It means something is close enough to be reached or obtained. Example: The remote control was just within reaching distance, so I didn't have to get up from the couch to change the channel.
Those rationales only make sense, he said, "when the arrestee is unsecured and within reaching distance" of the car.
I've never felt oppressed by my small kitchen". Instead, he points out, cooking is less tiring when everything is within reaching distance.
During assessments, the infants were seated in a baby chair and a toy was presented at his/her midline within reaching distance for 2 min.
The employees of the plant and the crew of the armored car got used to seeing it there with its white-aproned owner standing or sitting within reaching distance of it.
Until now, the CSI franchise had relied on geographical locations as a nifty means of rebooting and bringing in a new cast to sexily solve crimes in between bouts of awkwardly high-fiving anyone within reaching distance.
During his victory walk — it was his first show at the Garden — he didn't high-five anyone, though everyone within reaching distance seemed to move into position to do so.
We found no lateral spatial limits for the rubber hand illusion created by synchronous stroking within reaching distances.
Toys needs to be within their reaching distance to stimulate touching and moving the objects and certain pre-grasping behaviors.
(The Boston Globe) Treehouses Now Within Reach.
Far (extrapersonal) and near (peripersonal) spaces are behaviorally defined as the space outside arm-reaching distance and the space within arm-reaching distance.
Have good strength for reaching long distances.
