climbing
Variant of climb
climb (klīm)
intransitive verb, transitive verb climbed, climbing climb′·ing
- to go up by using the feet and, often, the hands
- to rise or ascend gradually to a higher point; mount
- to move (down, over, along, etc.), using the hands and feet
- ☆ to get (into or out of clothes or a piece of clothing) hastily, perfunctorily, etc.
- Bot. to grow upward on (a wall, trellis, etc.) by winding around or adhering with tendrils
Etymology: ME climben < OE climban < IE *glembh- (> clamber, clump) < base *gel-, to make round, clench, as the fist: basic sense, “to cling to, grip”
noun
- an act or instance of climbing; rise; ascent
- a thing or place to be climbed
climbing Quotes
I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again. That would be good both going and coming back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches. Frost, Robert Lee
They were alwaysgetting more credit than they deserved, more sorrow than they could bear, climbing into jobs before they were ready and failing just when they were succeeding. Reston,James B(arrett)
Climbing over rocky mountain, Skipping rivulet and fountain. Gilbert, Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck)
Browse dictionary entries near climbing
- climber
- climbed
- climbable
- climb down
- climb
- climax
- climatology
- climatologist
- climatological
- climatically
- climbing iron
- climbing perch
- clime
- clin-
- clinal
- clinch
- clincher
- cline
- cling
- clinger
