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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 climbers in a Sentence
The other climbers from Bird Song were already here.
The coterie of ice climbers was beginning to gather on the front porch.
The ice climbers hadn't shown up yet.
It made her dizzy just to see the magazine pictures of the climbers, she'd said.
Gladys Turnbull button-holed two of the climbers and began holding court on one side of the room while devouring a logging crew's share of Cynthia's Toll House cookies.
The ice climbers smiled politely but one by one began to make excuses about leaving for dinner.
The rest of the climbers followed in the truck but Ryland declined to join them, turning a perturbed eye to Bird Song.
The crowd had grown since Dean's Thursday trip, both in numbers of climbers and spectators.
This is typified by the number of winter climbers who now visit the Northern corries in early winter to seek out similar conditions.
Now it held about two dozen people, some climbers preparing their equipment and photographers availing themselves of the excellent location where they could look straight down on the climbers below them.
Climbers could be seen in pairs, groups and singles, some nearly beneath them.
It was constructed of narrow boards and chewed by the cutting crampons of hundreds of climbers.
Cynthia, while not as apprehensive as Edith had been, was obviously uncomfortable watching the climbers, especially from atop their precarious positions.
You're always testing because surface changes, by the season, the time of day, how many climbers hack away at it, sometimes by the hour.
The Deans joined the ice climbers and others in the living room for afternoon snacks and chatter just as Edith Shipton descended the stairs.
He held up his recently purchased room key as the two ice climbers waved good bye.
The two of them managed to finish attending to the chatting guests, the late rising climbers and the Quincy sisters.
Cynthia was troubled with a headache and tried to catch an extra half-hour of sleep as Dean served breakfast to the early risers, Penny, Mick and two of the other climbers.
By that time, most of the ice climbers were back at Bird Song.
The climbers are checking out of Bird Song tomorrow.
Sure. Everybody else was watching the climbers, at least what they could see through the snow.
He informed Dean the climbers, who were due to check out later, had left for the ice park, grumbling at the heavy accumulation of snow which was abating to a last-ditch flurry after depositing thirty inches of fluffy white.
Dean smiled at a pair of climbers rounding a bend in the trail and waited for them to pass before responding.
Most of the climbers have partners up here with their gear, ready to help.
Yup. I can't see any of the ice climbers taking Shipton seriously enough to bother to dump him.
They're starting on the ice climbers but they're only taking about five minutes with each of 'em. I think Penny is in there now.
First off, all the ice climbers are leaving so there's no hurry cleaning up what's going to be empty rooms, probably until the weekend.
The ice climbers are gone, too.
I can't understand those climbers....
Up the gorge, there were no climbers tacked to the icy walls.
The two donned their coats and joined the climbers outside.
Jerome appeared, overly chipper, talking up the other climbers as if he was a life-long participant in the sport, not a second day novice.
All the mountains offer easy routes to pedestrians, but some of them, as Scafell, Pillar, Gable (Napes Needle), Pavey Ark above Langdale and Dow Crags near Coniston, also afford ascents for experienced climbers.
The tribe Smilacoideae, shrubby climbers with net-veined leaves and small unisexual flowers, bears much the same relationship to the order as a whole as does the order Dioscoreaceae, which have a similar habit, but flowers with am inferior ovary, to the Amaryllidaceae.
It is estimated that more than half the birds of Brazil are insectivorous, and that more than one-eighth are climbers.
The climbers comprise a large number of species, some of which, like those of the parrot (Psittacidae) and woodpecker (Picus), are particularly noticeable in every wooded region of the country.
The dense bush or jungle of evergreen trees, climbers and flowering shrub, which up to the middle of the 19th century covered the greater part of the coast belt, has largely disappeared.
This struggle for existence has completely changed the habits of some plants, turning the palm and the cactus into climbers, and even some normal species into epiphytes.
A great stimulus was given to it by the foundation of the various Alpine clubs, each of which drew together the climbers who dwelt in the same country.
Climbers are trained from the bottom around or across trellises, of which the cylindrical or the balloon-shaped, or sometimes the flat oval or circular, are the best forms. The size should be adapted to the habit of the plant, which should cover the whole by the time flowers are produced.
Very durable trellises for greenhouse climbers are made of slender round iron rods for standards, having a series of hooks on the inner edge, into which rings of similar metal are dropped; the rings may be graduated so as to form a broad open top, or may be all of the same size, when the trellis will assume the cylindrical form.
The shrubs marked * are climbers.
The following is a select list of genera of miscellaneous decorative plants (orchids, palms and ferns excluded; climbers are denoted by *; bulbous and tuberous plants by f) Stove Plants.
The seasonal highlight was a major festival held each January, attracting climbers from around the world.
These incredibly tuned climbers were as at home on rock-face cliffs as frozen water falls, the steeper and higher the better, and by the sound of it, the world was getting a whole lot smaller.
Please respect the enjoyment of other climbers by not occupying more than two routes at a time.
The cliffs bulged out over much of this area so from the catwalk and path above, most of the time, they were unable to see the bottom of the gorge and only a portion of the ice, although the voices of the climbers and the sound of their axes could be heard.
The others returned in a group, the climbers boisterously chatting, but any sign of camaraderie among the others was absent.
She apologized for her tardiness to the balance of the accumulated climbers who were tarrying over coffee and herb tea.
The climbers grumbled about the negative affect of the snow on their anticipated activities, all except Penny, who considered the weather a new and exciting challenge.