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One who climbs.
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A plant that climbs, such as a vine.
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A bird that climbs, such as a woodpecker or a parrot.
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A rider who specializes in riding uphill quickly.
Examples of climber in a Sentence
The three north-side second floor rooms contained Fred, Gladys Turnbull and a pretty female climber named Penny.
Donnie clung to his mother, eyes wide, pointing to a climber about to descend from the corner of the bridge.
Anyone occupying the climber only area must wear crampons.
A climber up the trellis sections looks nice and stops a ' Berlin Wall ' effect.
A large outcropping of rock made it impossible for a climber more than just a few feet below the edge, to see anyone above him.
Dogs must be leashed in the climber only area and are not allowed at the bottom of the gorge.
And Penny's final observation about a second climber opened a whole new perspective.
The ocelot is essentially a forest cat, and a ready climber; its disposition is said to be fierce and bloodthirsty but in confinement it becomes tame and playful.
Although this animal is said to be an expert climber it usually inhabits holes in the ground.
He was a great mountain climber, could walk forever, never wore a hat.
Combining clips from the classic series with archive footage and exclusive interviews, this is an unflinching portrait of the ultimate social climber.
Two of the young ice climber descended the stairs and began gathering their suitcases and gear piled by the door.
It is a vigorous climber that grows quickly, with stems that will easily cover a wall up to 20 feet by twelve feet.
A vigorous, woody climber, it has bright green leaves that turn a bronze red in autumn, keeping their green veins.
A. argenta is a very vigorous climber in its own country, and grows freely here.
A. chinensis is also a fine climber of vigorous growth, the fruit large-about the size of a walnut-and of agreeable flavor.
A. Henryi is a tall climber; native of the high mountain forests of China.
Araujia Sericofera - A bold and distinct evergreen climber, not hardy everywhere, but where it succeeds in a southern county flowers, and in late summer bears curious fruits.
A vigorous and graceful summer-leafing climber of 10 to 20 feet, with bright glossy green oval leaves, sharply pointed and slightly waved.
Box Thorn (Lycium) - Rambling shrubs, the best known being L. chinense, a common climber on cottage walls.
Canadian Moonseed (Menispermum) - M. canadense is a hardy climber of rapid growth, having slender, twining, large roundish leaves, in summer bearing long feathery clusters of yellowish flowers.
Coriaria Rustifolia - a tall shrubby climber of 10 to 20 feet, with square stems and slender arching shoots, covered with fresh green foliage and sprays of tiny green flowers drooping prettily from the leaf-axils.
Cup-flower (Scyphanthus) - S. elegans is a beautiful slender climber, 5 to 8 feet high, with forked stems, and valuable for trailing over a trellis or against a wall.
It is a climber, and was found by Dr Henry covering the cliffs of the Ichang Gorge with clusters of fragrant white flowers.
Scaber is a delightful old climber for walls, trellises, and pillars, its orange-red flowers are beautiful, and its rambling shoots graceful.
It now and then makes very graceful standards at least in the good situations in the south, and bowers and most beautiful lace-work for summer-houses may be formed with this climber alone.
It is a climber, but not a strong grower, the flowers pale blue-purple, arranged densely in racemes 3 to 8 inches long in June.
Ivy (Hedera) - H. helix is the most beautiful evergreen climber of our northern and temperate world, and is a noble garden plant that may be used in many ways.
Lardizabala - L. biternata is a handsome evergreen climber from Chili, hardy enough for walls in the south and coast districts; the foliage a deep green, the leaflets thick.
Lophospermum - L. scandens is a tender climber with long slender stems, pale green hairy leaves, and large pink flowers.
It is a tall herbaceous climber, 10 to 20 feet high, with pinnate leaves, terminating in branched tendrils, the leaflets being covered on the under side with a fine silky down.
Napoleons Bell (Lapageria) - A beautiful climber usually grown in the greenhouse, but hardy and flowering well in the open air in Cornwall and the south of Ireland; with care it would be found to do over a larger area round the coast.
For covering arbours, walls, verandahs, or old tree stumps there is no climber which produces so brilliant an effect in so short a time.
It is a tall vigorous climber of massive effect, with foliage thickly clustered.
Patagonia was founded in 1972 by mountain climber Yvon Chouinard.
He's very masculine and can come off as being a rugged mountain climber, but he's an old softie when it comes to matters of the heart.
Legend has it that the ghost of Andrew Irvine, a climber who died while scaling the mountain in 1924, visits modern day climbers from time to time where he shares their tents and encourages them to finish their journey.
Interval training involves rapid cycling of high intensity exercise - such as weight lifting - and lower intensity aerobic training - such as a stair climber - in cycles.
This type of interval training can be done with any type of cardiovascular exercise, such as the elliptical trainer or stair climber.
The climb took four months, and at the time, he was the youngest British climber to ever reach the summit (this record has since been broken).
When Dean returned after confirming a reservation from yet another ice climber, she sat huddled in the corner of the sofa.
Mick, the ice climber, interrupted them before Dean could think up a proper reply.
The teeth enable the climber to scale a vertical wall by holding to the ice while pulling yourself upward.
She did attempt to engage an uninterested climber in a conversation about her Great-aunt Annie being one of the founders of the Ouray Woman's Club, back in 1897 and how she helped form the Ouray Library, with her friend, the famous millionaire, of Hope Diamond fame, Tom Walsh.
The only other party involved with Shipton who was an ice climber was Donald Ryland.
Dean tried to remember how Ryland had described the method of securing the other end of the line to the climber's body.
Lapageria, a native of Chile, is a favourite greenhouse climber with fine bell-shaped flowers.
Though an expert climber, it is by no means confined to wooded districts, being frequently found in scrub and reeds along the banks of rivers, and even in the open pampas and prairies.
Other fine species are P. baldschuanium, a climber, P. sphaerostachyum, P. lanigerum, P. polystachyum and P. sachalinense, all bold and handsome.
It used to be said that, if this narrow passage were blocked up, escape would be impossible; but an intricate web of fissures, called the Corkscrew, has been discovered, by means of which a good climber, ascending only a few hundred feet, lands 1000 yds.