diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index eb5dc4c6..5d5177af 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 # purrr (development version)
 
+* `list_transpose()` now works with data.frames (@KimLopezGuell, #1109).
 * Added `imap_vec()` (#1084)
 * `list_transpose()` inspects all elements to determine the correct
   template if it's not provided by the user  (#1128, @krlmlr).
diff --git a/R/list-transpose.R b/R/list-transpose.R
index cd9e737d..a3dba5b2 100644
--- a/R/list-transpose.R
+++ b/R/list-transpose.R
@@ -69,7 +69,8 @@ list_transpose <- function(x,
                            simplify = NA,
                            ptype = NULL,
                            default = NULL) {
-  vec_check_list(x)
+
+  check_list(x)
   check_dots_empty()
 
   if (length(x) == 0) {
diff --git a/tests/testthat/_snaps/list-transpose.md b/tests/testthat/_snaps/list-transpose.md
index 36a7dd4d..10ccbc6d 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/_snaps/list-transpose.md
+++ b/tests/testthat/_snaps/list-transpose.md
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
       list_transpose(10)
     Condition
       Error in `list_transpose()`:
-      ! `x` must be a list, not the number 10.
+      ! `x` must be a list, not a number.
     Code
       list_transpose(list(1), template = mean)
     Condition
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-list-transpose.R b/tests/testthat/test-list-transpose.R
index 91895abf..872e5b7f 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-list-transpose.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-list-transpose.R
@@ -4,6 +4,12 @@ test_that("can transpose homogenous list", {
   expect_equal(out, list(a = c(x = 1, y = 3), b = c(x = 2, y = 4)))
 })
 
+test_that("can transpose data frames", {
+  df <- data.frame(x = 1:2, y = 4:5)
+  out <- list_transpose(df)
+  expect_equal(out, list(c(x = 1, y = 4), c(x = 2, y = 5)))
+})
+
 test_that("transposing empty list returns empty list", {
   expect_equal(list_transpose(list()), list())
 })