shinny
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He wants to shinny up the greasy pole, but I don’t know how ruthless he is.
From New York Times ● May 29, 2023
For the climbing task, the winning design evolved two arms and two legs that help it shinny up a shaft like an ape.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 10, 2021
It’s not easy to practice in summer skates that are more like shinny than postseason hockey, but McDavid has taken it upon himself to try.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 30, 2021
Celestial shinny games just got a lot more rugged.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2019
In my mind I would shinny up one of those columns and then work my way from rafter to rafter, figuring out how to make my next move, seeing how far I could get.
From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz
Zacchaeus shinnies down the tree and repents, saying that that he will repay anyone he has defrauded “four times as much.”
From Time ● Oct. 12, 2015
In Iron Men he shinnies up a vertical girder, using only his hands and his knees.
From Time Magazine Archive
Instead, she finds a tree behind the building and shinnies up as I watch from below, holding jay's cage.
From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman
Rani shinnies down the tree and lands beside me.
From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman
“Jo says Mrs. Merlin shinnies on her own side,” added Billy.
From Penny of Top Hill Trail by Philip Lyford
That same day, the Associated Press reported, the male raccoon shinnied up a tall tree on the White House lawn, and, like Rebecca, would not come down.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 25, 2019
The parade stalled for 10 minutes until Mike Ferraro, a member of the volunteer parade route staff, shinnied up the light pole with a screwdriver and took down the sign.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2018
Fans shinnied up a traffic-light post outside the luxury hotel where the Lakers stayed, hoping to get a glimpse of Kobe Bryant boarding the team bus among dozens and dozens of cordoned-off people.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2015
Five crews of linemen scrambled and shinnied to make telephone connections.
From Time Magazine Archive
As he shinnied back in the saddle, Count Atlas leaned hard into Seabiscuit, buffeting his right side as the field bounded away from them.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
And Gittens Anglaise, 43, of Colihaut, related tales of leaping from a window and shinnying across the water along electrical wires "like Rambo".
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2015
They'll be shinnying up every suspension cable on the north side of the western span, affixing individual L.E.D. lights at a spacing of 1 every 12 inches.
From New York Times ● Nov. 29, 2012
In the year of the census, Montana's grizzly bears are standing up -- or, rather, shinnying up against trees -- to be counted.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 27, 2010
They use electrical wires and cables to travel between units, experts said, adding that they’re also adept at shinnying up from sewers, through pipes and up into toilets.
From Washington Post
“Only one way to find out,” Ruthanne answered, already shinnying down the rope ladder.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
