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Like a mountain goat
Answer for the clue "Like a mountain goat ", 10 letters:
surefooted
Alternative clues for the word surefooted
Word definitions for surefooted in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 walking steadily, moving freely, capable of finding good footing 2 confident alt. 1 walking steadily, moving freely, capable of finding good footing 2 confident
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. not liable to stumble or fall; "on surefooted donkeys" [syn: footsure ] not liable to error in judgment or action; "most surefooted of the statesmen who dealt with the depression"- Walter Lippman; "demonstrates a surefooted storytelling talent"- Michiko ...
Usage examples of surefooted.
My bullocks are surefooted, and you may rely on me for keeping them straight.
High on Ben Howth rhododendrons a nannygoat walking surefooted, dropping currants.
These two options could be likened to two paths, one flat and easily traversed but laced with land mines, the other steep and rocky, but without land mines and with little risk of falling off the edge because we are surefooted and possess the best mountain-climbing tools.
Surefooted, long used to mountain ways, the Commot youth was now shepherd to a different, grimmer flock.
While Hands berated himself for not foreseeing the Queen's intention, I took Sidekick, a well-named but surefooted mule, from his stall.
Lothar De La Rey came bounding up the wet black rocks, surefooted as a mountain goat, dressed only in a pair of black woollen bathing trunks.
Utilizing a heavy length of climbing rope, the little group bound themselves to one another, the surefooted Durin taking the lead position, the Prince of Callahorn again assuming his post as rear guard.
A great jumble of fallen rock blocked their way partway up, where a section of the cliff face had fallen, but the surefooted little garrons were able to pick their way through.
Early in the contretemps, Ignace waved his own blade cunningly, demonstrating both by stance and surefooted poise his expertise in the skill of knifery.
He was no longer a patient in need of her care and attention, but a man who, in spite of his memory loss, would be more surefooted than she was in this world of shifting real.
Storms didn’t spook her, uncanny visitations could not make her bolt, she knew when to fight and when to flee, and she was surefooted and wise in the way of trails and tracks.
There were at least a hundred animals in the herd newly born foals with legs too long for their fluffy bodies and w th smudged chocolate-coloured stripes not yet set into definite patterns, staying close to their dams and staring around at the world with huge dark apprehensive eyes, older foals quick and surefooted as they chased each other in circles through the trees, the breeding mares, sleek and glossy, with stiff upstanding manes and pricked ears, some of them huge with foal, milk already swelling in their black udders.