Climbing

English

Noun

Climbing (usually uncountable; plural Climbings)

1. (uncountable) 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. (countable) Climb; ascent.

Verb

climbing

1. Present participle of climb.

Adjective

Climbing (not comparable)

1. (botany, of a plant) That climbs; that grows upwards by gripping onto a surface.

Adjectives for Climbing

hot; venturous; exhausting; tedious; fruitless; arduous.

Thesaurus

advance, ambition, ambitiousness, anabasis, anabatic, angular motion, ascendant, ascending, ascension, ascensional, ascensive, ascent, axial motion, backflowing, backing, backward motion, career, careerism, clamber, climb, course, current, descending, descent, downward motion, drift, driftage, ebbing, elevation, escalade, flight, flow, flux, forward motion, fountain, gush, gyring up, in the ascendant, increase, jet, jump, leap, leaping, levitation, lofty ambition, magnanimity, mount, mounting, oblique motion, ongoing, onrush, passage, plunging, power-hunger, progress, radial motion, rampant, random motion, rearing, reflowing, refluence, reflux, regression, retrogression, rise, rising, rocketing up, run, rush, saltation, saltatory, scandent, scansorial, set, shooting up, sideward motion, sinking, skyrocketing, soaring, social climbing, spiraling, spout, spring, springing, spurt, status-seeking, sternway, stream, subsiding, surge, takeoff, taking off, traject, trajet, trend, uparching, upclimb, upcoming, updraft, upgang, upgo, upgoing, upgrade, upgrowth, uphill, uphillward, upleap, uplift, upping, uprisal, uprise, uprising, uprush, upshoot, upslope, upsloping, upsurge, upsurgence, upsweep, upswing, upward, upward motion, upwith, vault, vaulting ambition, zooming

Translations

Noun

the sport of climbing

French: escalade (fr) f. German: Klettern (de) n.

Spanish: escalada (es) Swedish: klättring (sv) c.

climbs; ascents