noun
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An act of climbing.
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The act of getting to somewhere more elevated.
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An upwards struggle
verb
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To ascend; rise; to go up.
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Prices climbed steeply.
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To mount; to move upwards on.
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Climbing a tree
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To scale; to get to the top of something.
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To move (especially up and down something) by gripping with the hands and using the feet.
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To practise the sport of climbing
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To jump high
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To move to a higher position on the social ladder.
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Of plants, to grow upwards by clinging to something.
Examples of climb in a Sentence
To climb means to go up.
Then you get back up and continue the climb.
I shall climb very high mountains in Norway and see much ice and snow.
They climb all over the counters.
When she arrived, the mustang was parked so close to the apartment that she had to walk around it to climb the stairs.
Some climb trees and feed on leaves, while others tunnel between bark and wood.
Elisabeth struggled to climb onto the sofa.
Jerome plans to climb tomorrow, so he can show everyone how much of a macho stud he is.
Alex took another step forward, reaching for her and she tried to climb Carmen.
It was here Donald Ryland planned to tackle a mixed rock and ice climb innocuously called Rosebud.
Unable to move, barely able to breathe, she watched the sun climb into the sky.
You may GO down, but you can only CLIMB up.
Sarah watched him climb the stairs while tears ran down her face.
She clung to one of the warriors, attempting to climb him as the cat-like critter-- convinced it was a game-- wagged its tail and chased her around the large man in the center of the room.
He loves to climb much better than to spell, but that is because he does not know yet what a wonderful thing language is.
I, in turn, used her to climb the Immortal ladder.
It had been foolish to climb into the car with him.
You mean climb trees?
He loved to climb hills, the higher the better.
They began the arduous climb, puffing in the high elevation for ten minutes until the trail leveled and opened to their left.
Its legs were jointed outwards like a spider's, and its ability to climb walls resembled that of a spider.
Darting down the stairs, she ran to the stage office, arriving as the driver was preparing to climb into the seat.
The second stratum of the town lies ten minutes' climb up the side of the island.
Their wanderings finally took them back to the car, and as Clara opened the door to climb in, she hesitated.
As she watched him climb into his truck, she decided that she could tell him in the morning.
Obviously she couldn't climb up, but maybe she could slide down.
Her first instinct was to scramble to the back of the bus and climb out.
I felt badly that I wasn't able to watch him climb but it made me nauseated to even look over the edge.
The others might be below, but Shipton would attempt the same climb where he had fallen two weeks before.
Why would he be fool enough to go back up there and climb again?
The climb didn't quit—it keep going and going and going.
After the obligatory shower, fresh clothes and a hearty supper, the tired body was beginning to revive, as long as the mind kept mum about tomorrow's 90 miles and the 10,850foot climb up Wolfe Creek Pass.
It seemed every other rider had passed him on the climb until he looked down the mountain and saw hundreds of dots of color still struggling up the incline behind him.
In Campania the vines are allowed to climb freely to the tops of the poplars.
I'll ice climb during the day, then drive back up to Grand Junction.
Do me a favor and don't climb back up on your soapbox.
Instead, he was working his backside off trying to climb an 11,000-foot mountain that never ended with the only power provided by his two aching legs.
With each turn in the road he expected to see the summit but was only greeted with another long uphill climb until he lost track of the numbers.
The creeping or trailing type is a common one, as in the English bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis), which has also a tendency to climb, and Calystegia Soldanella, the sea-bindweed, the long creeping stem of which forms a sandbinder on English seashores; a widespread and efficient tropical sand-binder is Ipomaea Pes-Caprae.
Lions never climb.
Sometimes they had to climb over heaps of loose rock, where Jim could scarcely drag the buggy.
The shade was grateful, and the tree was so easy to climb that with my teacher's assistance I was able to scramble to a seat in the branches.
She fed the elephants, and was allowed to climb up on the back of the largest, and sit in the lap of the "Oriental Princess," while the elephant marched majestically around the ring.
She couldn't outrun it - in any condition, and it could climb a tree as fast as she could.
She didn't understand what her instincts were trying to tell her, but right now, they wanted her to climb a tree to see the lake from above.
He started to resume his climb, then paused.
If that pansy Ryland can ice climb, it can't be much of a challenge now can it?
Before the couple left for their climb, Dean pulled Penny aside.
The last thing David Dean had wanted to do was to climb back in his tired automobile and drive to Philadelphia in the middle of the night.
They climb with great facility, and are agile and graceful in their movements.