Usually means: Ascending vertical surfaces using limbs.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. climbing: Merriam-Webster
  2. climbing: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. climbing: Collins English Dictionary
  4. climbing: Vocabulary.com
  5. Climbing, climbing: Wordnik
  6. climbing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. climbing: Wiktionary
  8. Climbing, climbing: Dictionary.com
  9. climbing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Climbing (disambiguation), Climbing (magazine), Climbing, Climbing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Climbing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. climbing: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. climbing: Rhymezone
  14. Climbing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. climbing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. climbing: FreeDictionary.org
  17. climbing: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. climbing: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. climbing: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. climbing: Legal dictionary

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  1. climbing: Encyclopedia

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  1. climbing: Idioms

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  1. climbing: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  (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.
▸ noun:  (countable) Climb; ascent.
▸ adjective:  (botany, of a plant) That climbs; that grows upwards by gripping onto a surface.

Similar:
ascending, mounting, scandent, aid climbing, rock climbing, technical climbing, mountain climbing, lead climbing, hillclimbing, climbing hold, more...

Opposite:
descending, falling, dropping, lowering, sinking

Types:
rock climbing, ice climbing, indoor climbing, bouldering, free climbing, aid climbing, trad climbing, sport climbing, more...

Phrases:
climbing into, mountain climbing, rock climbing, climbing down, social climbing, more...

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social, hill, rock, stair, tree, free, hard, clitic, alpine, high, steep

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Similar:
ascending, mounting, scandent, aid climbing, rock climbing, technical climbing, mountain climbing, lead climbing, hillclimbing, climbing hold, more...

Opposite:
descending, falling, dropping, lowering, sinking

Types:
rock climbing, ice climbing, indoor climbing, bouldering, free climbing, aid climbing, trad climbing, sport climbing, more...

Phrases:
climbing into, mountain climbing, rock climbing, climbing down, social climbing, stair climbing, hill climbing, Climbing fiber, climbing fibers, Climbing rope, climbing plant, climbing wall, ice climbing, more...

Adjectives:
social, hill, rock, stair, tree, free, hard, clitic, alpine, high, steep

Colors:
    green,     brown,     gray,     olive,     khaki, more...



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