climbing
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.
Example
“The next day, the team had to wear special ice climbing footwear while repairing other research devices on the glacier.”
Related words
- anticlimbing
- board climbing
- climbing-boy
- climbing shoe
- climbing wall
- directory climbing
- free climbing
- hillclimbing
- ice climbng
- mixed climbing
- stairclimbing
- superclimbing
Example sentences
Word history
From Middle English "clymbyng".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “climbing” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.