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
I watched him climb over The Baron’s rock and shinny up a hemlock.
From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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
Rani shinnies down the tree and lands beside me.
From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman
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
“Jo says Mrs. Merlin shinnies on her own side,” added Billy.
From Penny of Top Hill Trail by Lyford, Philip
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
As police later reconstructed it, Mark Willey had shinnied up the tree with his rifle slung over his back.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 30, 2019
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
Nim sneaked back to her Lookout Palm, shinnied to the top, and clung high and still.
From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr
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
And members of the next generation like Jim Brady, 29, an astonishingly agile connector who grabs the steel with gloved hands and sets it in place, shinnying beams without a harness.
From New York Times ● Sep. 1, 2011
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
He went to the polls with his parents, ruined one pair of knickerbockers after another shinnying up poles to take down campaign posters.
From Time Magazine Archive
When he was a week old he could climb lamps by shinnying up the cord.
From "Stuart Little" by E.B. White
