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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

In just a few hours on Tuesday, the dollar exchange rate collapsed from 64 to 80 rubles before climbing back to about 68.

We kept on shooting for another year...and were never able to get the shot of him climbing on the horse.

She is as confident over the phone as she is climbing across one of Ninja Warriors many daunting obstacles.

The homestretch of the track had been blocked off with cattle fencing—the kind they use at rodeos that makes for easy climbing.

As the youngest of four siblings—all the rest boys—Healey grew up accustomed to climbing trees, eating fast, and getting dirty.

He said something laughingly to the head guide to the effect that climbing was good sport and a fine test for the nerves.

A cocoanut-tree, as you probably remember, has no branches whatever to give any help to a person in climbing.

Do you think he must go down to the ground again and go through all the work he had in climbing the first tree?

She did not yet know how necessary climbing might be, in her new country life, but her aspirations did not tend that way.

The tourist climbing tna, or Vesuvius' rugged side, puffs on though they perchance have long since ceased to smoke.

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

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