MOUNTAINEERING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mountaineering mean? 

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

1. the activity of climbing a mountain

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOUNTAINEERING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The activity of climbing a mountain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

mountain climbing; mountaineering

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

climb; mount (the act of climbing something)

Domain member category:

abseil; rappel ((mountaineering) a descent of a vertical cliff or wall made by using a doubled rope that is fixed to a higher point and wrapped around the body)

aerodontalgia (pain in the teeth that results from a change in air pressure (as in flying or mountain climbing))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mountaineering"):

Alpinism (mountain climbing (not restricted to the Alps))

Derivation:

mountaineer (climb mountains for pleasure as a sport)