climbing
/ˈklaɪ̯mɪŋ/ noun A2- 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. · The next day, the team had to wear special ice climbing footwear while repairing other research devices on the glacier.
- Climb; ascent.
Plural climbings
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This done, instead of leaving the door fastened, he drew back the bolts and even placed the door ajar, as though he had left the room, forgetting to close it, and slipping into the chimney like a man accustomed to that kind of gymnastic exercise, after replacing the chimney-board, which represented Achilles with Deidamia, and effacing the very marks of his feet upon the ashes, he commenced climbing the hollow tunnel, which afforded him the only means of escape left.
After climbing down from the china wall the travelers found themselves in a disagreeable country, full of bogs and marshes and covered with tall, rank grass.
But he had no arms at all, and, seeing this, the Scarecrow did not fear that so helpless a creature could prevent them from climbing the hill.
“He’s quicker at climbing down holes than I am.
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