Crossword clues for climbing
climbing
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Climbing \Climb"ing\, p. pr. & vb. n. of Climb.
Climbing fern. See under Fern.
Climbing perch. (Zo["o]l.) See Anabas, and Labyrinthici.
Climb \Climb\ (kl[imac]m), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Climbed (kl[imac]md), Obs. or Vulgar Clomb (kl[o^]m); p. pr. & vb. n. Climbing.] [AS. climban; akin to OHG. chlimban, G. & D. klimmen, Icel. kl[=i]fa, and E. cleave to adhere.]
To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet.
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To ascend as if with effort; to rise to a higher point.
Black vapors climb aloft, and cloud the day.
--Dryden. (Bot.) To ascend or creep upward by twining about a support, or by attaching itself by tendrils, rootlets, etc., to a support or upright surface.
Wiktionary
(context botany of a plant English) That climbs; that grows upwards by gripping onto a surface. n. 1 (context uncountable English) The sport of climbing, ascending a wall or a rock or another object using available holds, generally with the safety of a rope and belayer. 2 (context countable English) Climb; ascent. v
(present participle of climb English)
WordNet
Wikipedia
Climbing is the activity of using one's hands, feet, or any other part of the body to ascend a steep object. It is done recreationally, competitively, in trades that rely on it, and in emergency rescue and military operations. It is done indoors and out, on natural and manmade structures.
Climbing is the human activity of ascending a steep object with the hands and/or feet.
Climbing, Climb or The climb may also refer to:
- Climbing (sport)
- Climbing (magazine)
- Arboreal locomotion, animal locomotion while on trees. Also includes locomotion on mountains/cliffs/rocks.
- Climbing specialist, a racing cyclist who is especially competitive on hills
- Climb (aeronautics), an aviation term
- Climb (dislocation), see Dislocation
- Climb (plants), see Vine
- "Climbing", an episode of the television series Zoboomafoo
Climbing is a major US-based rock climbing magazine first published in 1970. In 2007, it was bought by Skram Media, the publisher of Urban Climber Magazine. The headquarters of the magazine is in Carbondale, Colorado. It is published nine times a year.
Usage examples of "climbing".
Why, Abigail could best nearly any boy in the county at what were deemed masculine pursuits: hunting, riding and climbing trees.
Lark was flooded with relief when she rounded a bend in the trail and saw Ace Brandon climbing toward her.
In time of winter and snow he forsook the land and grave of his father, and climbing into the high regions of Gorgoroth, the Mountains of Terror, he descried afar the land of Doriath.
There was a small amount of sulphurous light from the street lights strung along the se afront path, and I saw Danny climbing the metal steps over the sea wall.
If I were the more agile jumper Hovan Du far outclassed me in climbing, with the result that he reached the rail and was clambering over while my eyes were still below the level of the deck, which was, perhaps, a fortunate thing for me since, by chance, I had elected to gain the deck directly at a point where, unknown to me, one of the crew of the ship was engaged with the grappling hooks.
When he was eleven years of age, both his parents were killed in a climbing accident in the Aiguilles Rouges above Chamonix, and the youth came under the guardianship of an aunt, since deceased, Miss Charmian Bond, and went to live with her at the quaintly-named hamlet of Pett Bottom near Canterbury in Kent.
Minutes later his airmobile was at two thousand feet and climbing to merge into an eastbound traffic corridor with the rainbow towers of Houston gleaming in the sunlight on the skyline ahead.
Climbing down, Alec woke him and together they hurried off through the trees to strike the path ahead of the girl.
The sun was just climbing above the eastern treetops as Seregil, Alec, and Micum set off for the city with Nysander.
They were roped together with a string, they had mimic alpenstocks and ice-axes, and were climbing a meek and lowly manure-pile with a most blood-curdling amount of care and caution.
My first experiences in Egypt, pursuing mummies and climbing up and down cliffs, had convinced me that trailing skirts and tight corsets were a confounded nuisance in that ambience For many years my working costume had consisted of pith helmet and shirtwaist, boots, and Turkish trousers, or bloomers.
Their long-armed, apish forms seemed adapted to the rough going--the way was almost half steady climbing up, and down.
They liked visiting the coffee plantations where arabica coffee was grown, or climbing to the higher elevations where robusta coffee, the kind used for instant coffee, was grown, or watching the fishermen haul in their catch from Lake Tanganyika.
Still, every now and then she would wake in the chasm night to the sound of floppers honking in the root mat, half dreaming about hiding on the rootwall, lumps of charcoal in her hands, looking up at the adze-cut end of the mainroot while hearing from below that phlegmy chuckle as Slysaw Bander came climbing up the stairs.
Anoshi was climbing in, followed by Bap, who turned to reseal the pod entrance behind him.