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Definitions for Climbing

[1] to go up or ascend, especially by using the hands and feet or feet only: to climb up a ladder.
[2] to rise slowly by or as if by continued effort: The car laboriously climbed to the top of the mountain.
[3] to ascend or rise: The plane climbed rapidly and we were soon at 35,000 feet. Temperatures climbed into the 80s yesterday.
[4] to slope upward: The road climbs steeply up to the house.
[5] to ascend by twining or by means of tendrils, adhesive tissues, etc., as a plant: The ivy climbed to the roof.
[6] to proceed or move by using the hands and feet, especially on an elevated place; crawl: to climb along a branch; to climb around on the roof.
[7] to ascend in prominence, fortune, etc.: From lowly beginnings he climbed to the highest office in the land.
[8] to ascend, go up, or get to the top of, especially by the use of the hands and feet or feet alone or by continuous or strenuous effort: to climb a rope; to climb the stairs; to climb a mountain.
[9] to go to the top of and over: The prisoners climbed the wall and escaped.
[10] a climbing; an ascent by climbing: It was a long climb to the top of the hill.
[11] a place to be climbed: That peak is quite a climb.
[12] climb down , to descend, especially by using both hands and feet. to retreat, as from an indefensible opinion or position: He was forced to climb down from his untenable position.
[13] climb the walls . wall(def 15) .
[14] (also tr often foll by up ) to go up or ascend (stairs, a mountain, etc)
[15] (often foll by along) to progress with difficulty to climb along a ledge
[16] to rise to a higher point or intensity the temperature climbed
[17] to incline or slope upwards the road began to climb
[18] to ascend in social position
[19] (of plants) to grow upwards by twining, using tendrils or suckers, etc
[20] informal (foll by into) to put (on) or get (into)
[21] to be a climber or mountaineer
[22] the act or an instance of climbing
[23] a place or thing to be climbed, esp a route in mountaineering

Words related to Climbing

climbscale, top, rise, ascend, clamber, mount, soar, escalate, escalade

Words nearby Climbing

climbclimatic zone, climatize, climatology, climax, climax community, climb, climb down, climb indicator, climb on the bandwagon, climb the walls, climb-down

Origin of Climbing

before 1000; Middle English climben, Old English climban; cognate with Dutch, German klimmen; akin to clamber

Words that may be confused with Climbing

WORDS, THAT, MAY, BE, CONFUSED, WITH, climbclimb, clime

Other words from Climbing

climb·a·ble , adjective
half-climb·ing , adjective
non·climb·a·ble , adjective
non·climb·ing , adjective
re·climb , verb (used with object), re·climbed, re·climb·ing.
un·climb·a·ble , adjective
un·climbed , adjective
un·climb·ing , adjective
Related adjective: scansorial

Word origin for Climbing

Old English climban; related to Old Norse klembra to squeeze, Old High German climban to clamber

Synonyms for Climbing

ascend, clamber, go up, mount, rise, scale, soar, top, escalade, escalate, ape up