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View definitions for climbing

climbing

adjective as in arising

adjective as in rising

adjective as in creeping

adjective as in soaring

adjective as in uphill

noun as in ascension

noun as in ascent

noun as in mountain climbing

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Example Sentences

Though it might be a “generational problem,” she said, women grew up believing that only one woman can succeed, whether that woman is getting the man or climbing the ladder.

Video footage submitted to insurers as evidence showed what appeared to be the animal climbing into the front seat of Rolls Royce, then clawing its way toward the back.

From BBC

Ms Roberts, who worked at an indoor climbing centre in Newton Aycliffe, County Durham, started a relationship with Mr Stockton in January 2023.

From BBC

Worldwide, the number of displaced people has been climbing alongside what appears to be the rising severity of disasters, and research suggests that by later this century as much as one-third of civilization — billions of people — could be facing the kind of heat and drought that had prohibited most human settlement for thousands of years.

From Salon

For Alanna Kathleen Brown, an 80-year-old retired English professor, slow-motion strength training has turned her into a “walking miracle,” she says, climbing onto the seat of the High Row machine at Pure Strength in Studio City.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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