climbing

Plural: climbings

Noun

• an event that involves rising to a higher point (as in altitude or temperature or intensity etc.)
• 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.
• Climb; ascent.

Verb

• go upward with gradual or continuous progress
• move with difficulty, by grasping
• go up or advance
  • "Sales were climbing after prices were lowered"
• slope upward
• improve one's social status
• increase in value or to a higher point
• present participle and gerund of climb

Adj

• That climbs; that grows upwards by gripping onto a surface.

Examples

• The next day, the team had to wear special ice climbing footwear while repairing other research devices on the glacier.

Synonyms

climb, climb up, go up, mount, mounting, rise, wax

Antonyms

wane

Related Words

bouldering

Anagrams of climbing