CLIMBING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does climbing mean? 

• CLIMBING (noun)
  The noun CLIMBING has 1 sense:

1. an event that involves rising to a higher point (as in altitude or temperature or intensity etc.)

  Familiarity information: CLIMBING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLIMBING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An event that involves rising to a higher point (as in altitude or temperature or intensity etc.)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

climb; climbing; mounting

Hypernyms ("climbing" is a kind of...):

ascension; ascent; rise; rising (a movement upward)

Derivation:

climb (increase in value or to a higher point)

climb (go upward with gradual or continuous progress)

 Context examples 

“He’s quicker at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the derbies.”

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Ambition soared on mad wings, and he saw himself climbing the heights with her, sharing thoughts with her, pleasuring in beautiful and noble things with her.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I profited by my lesson learned through raising the shears and then climbing them to attach the guys.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It may also cause paralysis and problems with swallowing, talking, climbing stairs, lifting things, and getting up from a sitting position.

(Myasthenia Gravis, NCI Dictionary)

An herbal supplement containing an extract from guarana (Paullinia cupana), a climbing plant of the Sapindaceae family which is native to the Amazon basin, with stimulant, antioxidant and potential chemoprotective activities.

(Guarana Supplement, NCI Thesaurus)

A question about climbing several flights of stairs.

(Climbing Several Flights of Stairs, NCI Thesaurus)

A question about climbing one flight of stairs.

(Climbing One Flight of Stairs, NCI Thesaurus)

“It’s not worth the trouble,” said the third; “let him live, he’ll go climbing higher up the mountain, and some cloud will come rolling and carry him away.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Two-tone mineral veins at a site NASA's Curiosity rover has reached by climbing a layered Martian mountain offer clues about multiple episodes of fluid movement.

(Curiosity Eyes Prominent Mineral Veins on Mars, NASA)

A grading of angina such that ordinary physical activity, such as walking or climbing stairs, does not cause angina.

(Canadian Cardiovascular Society Grading Scale Class I, NCI Thesaurus)