'Climbing' definitions:
Definition of 'climbing'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Climbing'
From: GCIDE
- Climb \Climb\ (kl[imac]m), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Climbed (kl[imac]md), Obs. or Vulgar Clomb (kl[o^]m); p. pr. & vb. n. Climbing.] [AS. climban; akin to OHG. chlimban, G. & D. klimmen, Icel. kl[imac]fa, and E. cleave to adhere.]
- 1. To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To ascend as if with effort; to rise to a higher point. [1913 Webster]
- Black vapors climb aloft, and cloud the day. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Bot.) To ascend or creep upward by twining about a support, or by attaching itself by tendrils, rootlets, etc., to a support or upright surface. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Climbing'
From: GCIDE
- Climbing \Climb"ing\, p. pr. & vb. n. of Climb. [1913 Webster]
- Climbing fern. See under Fern.
- Climbing perch. (Zool.) See Anabas, and Labyrinthici. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'climbing'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acclinate,
- acclivitous,
- advance,
- ambition,
- ambitiousness,
- anabasis,
- anabatic,
- angular motion,
- ascendant,
- ascending,
- ascension,
- ascensional,
- ascensive,
- ascent,
- axial motion,
- backflowing,
- backing,
- backward motion,
- Brownian movement,
- 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
Words containing 'Climbing'
- Climb,
- Climbed,
- climb down,
- climb on,
- climb up,
- Climbing fern,
- Climbing fumitory,
- Climbing perch,
- To climb Parnassus,
- climb-down,
- climbing bittersweet,
- climbing boneset,
- climbing corydalis,
- climbing frame,
- climbing hempweed,
- climbing hydrangea,
- climbing iron,
- climbing lily,
- climbing maidenhair,
- climbing nightshade,
- climbing onion,
- climbing salamander,
- mountain climbing,
- rapid climb,
- rock climbing,
- social climbing,
- climbing maidenhair fern,
- semi-climbing,
- tendril-climbing,
- wild climbing hempweed,
- climbing bird's nest fern,
- climbing hemp-vine