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Noun: climbing  klI-ming
    - climb, mounting
  2. A sport where the aim is to ascend a rock face, wall or other object using available holds, usually with the safety of a rope and belay
Verb: climb  klIm
  1. Go upward with gradual or continuous progress
    - climb up, mount, go up
  2. Move with difficulty, by grasping
  3. Go up or advance
    "Sales were climbing after prices were lowered";
    - wax, mount, rise
  4. Slope upward
  5. Improve one's social status
    "This young man knows how to climb the social ladder"
  6. Increase in value or to a higher point
    "prices climbed steeply";
    - rise, go up

Derived forms: climbings

See also: climb down, climb on

Type of: advance, arise, ascension, ascent, come along, come on, come up, get along, get on, go up, grow, incline, increase, lift, move, move up, pitch, progress, rise, rising, shape up, slope, uprise

Encyclopedia: Climbing