shinny
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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
There were jokes as they zoomed around for drills and they spent the final 20 minutes playing lighthearted, up-tempo rounds of shinny that brought overzealous celebrations and chirps in the dressing room.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 21, 2014
He gathered his strength and then he managed to shinny up the trunk inch by inch.
From "I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005" by Lauren Tarshis
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 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
As the hysteria mounted and the astonished General shinnied up the nearest tree, the angry clamor drowned out the less exciting things, that Morgan had also said.
From Time Magazine Archive
Beneath the granite ledges, Turner found two gnarled pines that begged to be shinnied up, a cave that would just about die to be explored, and mudflats where herons longed to be chased.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
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
He can break down an illegally locked door or gingerly reposition a ruffled curtain and devotional votives after shinnying out a tenant’s eighth-floor window to check a leak.
From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 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
Late at night twice a week, every able-bodied Fermata girl leaps into special "fire clothes," goes shinnying down a pole for fire drill.
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
