Climb

Definition: Climb

Climb

Noun

1. An upward slope or grade (as in a road); "the car couldn't make the grade".

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

3. The act of climbing something.

Verb

1. Go upward with gradual or continuous progress; "Did you ever climb up the hill behind your house?".

2. Move with difficulty, by grasping.

3. Go up or advance; "Sales were climbing after prices were lowered".

4. Slope upward: "The path climbed all the way to the top of the hill".

5. Improve one's social status; "This young man knows how to climb the social ladder".

6. Increase in value or to a higher point; "prices climbed steeply"; "the value of our house rose sharply last year".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "climb" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Literature

Mining

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Climb

Ascent

Climb, clamber, ramp, scramble, escalade, surmount; shin, shinny, shinney; scale, scale the heights.

Fear

A dagger of the mind ; expertus metuit; " fain would I climb but that I fear to fall"; " fear is the parent of cruelty "; " Gorgons and hydras and chimeras dire "; omnia tuta timens; " our fears do make us traitors "

Crosswords: Climb

A big wooden cross, so every time you feel unappreciated for all your sacrifices, you can climb up and nail yourself to it. (The Ref; writing credit: Marie Weiss and Richard LaGravenese. Starring Denis Leary as Gus, Judy Davis as Caroline Chasseur and Kevin Spacey as Lloyd Chasseur.)

She makes me feel kinda funny, like when we used to climb the rope in gym-class (Wayne's World; writing credit: Mike Myers)

You can climb down (Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too!; writing credit: A.A. Milne; Ralph Wright)

Yeah, to climb up a clock tower and thin out the neighborhood (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro)

It looks like Santa's Little Helper is trying to climb over his girlfriend but he can't make it (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

I'd climb the highest hill (Ready Or Not; performing artist: After 7)

Climb the stairs up to my room (Pinch Me; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies)

The union of the snake is on the climb (Union of the Snake; performing artist: Duran Duran)

Have a mountain to climb (World At Your Feet; performing artist: Fabian)

I would climb any mountain (Feels Like The First Time; performing artist: Foreigner)

There are too many people praying for mountains of difficulty to be removed when what they really need is courage to climb them. (references; author: unknown)

Climb (1974)

The Climb (1970)

I'd Climb the Highest Mountain (1951)

Uphill Climb (1919)

The Uphill Climb (1914)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Flash Training (How to Rock Climb Series) (reference)

• How to Climb 5.12 (How to Rock Climb Series) (reference)

• More Climbing Anchors (How to Rock Climb Series) (reference)

• Self-Rescue (How to Rock Climb Series) (reference)

• The Climb (Everest, 2) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Climb (reference)

• "A Day In The Life" 5 Women Who Climb (reference)

• I'd Climb the Highest Mountain (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Climb (reference)

• Climb the Ladder (reference)

• Don't Climb the Pyramids (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Steel and concrete climb before the catwalk as CDC's new virology building goes up. Maximum containment equipment and facilities continue to help CDC scientists do viral research for health problems of the 21st century. Credit: CDC.

Resting from long climb to triangulation station and return to beach L to R- Mills, Noble, Paton, Lady (on back), Brown, Lockhart, and Drynan. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

11th Wing Defender Challenge team members, from left to right, Staff Sgt. Corey Margan, #135, and Senior Airman Eric D. Sawyer, #134, prepare for their climb on the "Tough One" as teammates, from left to right, Staff Sgts. Titus O. Kornegay, #13.

The trombone players climb the steep belfry stair to blow stately chorals-- / John Wolcott Adams. Credit: Library of Congress.

A tough climb still ahead. Credit: Library of Congress.

Some men climb "some heights" to get some women. Credit: Library of Congress.

Corsairs climb right into the fight! Get 'em up - for your Navy / Jon Whitcomb. Credit: Library of Congress.

Loading trucks with iron ore at the Albany mine, Hibbing, Minnesota. This mine formerly used railroad until trucks were found more economical; they can climb the steep grade in much shorter time. Credit: Library of Congress.

Cajon, California. Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad helper engine used on the steep climb from San Bernardino to Summit. Credit: Library of Congress.

Full of revolutionary determination, courageously climb the peaks of the world. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

And he had scaled that wondrous stair That soars from earth to upper air, Where rich and poor alike must climb, And walk the treadmill for a time

From its top the space to climb to get upon the wall was hardly more than fourteen feet

The men watched the water slowly climb to it, lift it gently and float it away

It was impossible for me to climb this stile, because every step was six feet high, and the upper stone above twenty

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Health

Fever is usually slight but can climb to 102o F in infants and young children. (references)

Bending increases pressure in the eye. You can walk, climb stairs, and do light household chores. (references)

Business

Industrial process control equipment plays an increasingly vital role in Taiwan as the economy continues to climb into a modern, technology and automation oriented stage. (references)

Trade sources estimate that this is just a temporary fall in import volumes and that imports of medical devices will increase by 10 percent next year in comparison with 1999. Third-country imports will continue their steady climb from a combination of oil revenue increases and continued credits from their country of origin (e.g. Germany, Japan, etc.). (references)

Civil Liberties

Tunisia

By September 1, the Government reported that there were 365,000 subscribers (10 times the number reported in 2000), and the Government estimates the figure will climb to 3 million by 2004. The Government used the Internet widely, with most government ministries and agencies posting information on readily accessible web sites. (references)

Economic History

Turkmenistan

In 1996 the economy bottomed out, and inflation rates continued to climb. (references)

China

The ratio of natural gas in the primary energy consumption will climb to 5% . (references)

Human Rights

Zimbabwe

The two were stripped and forced to climb trees and jump from a height of three meters. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "climb": aircraft climb corridor ♦ alpine climb ♦ best climb angle ♦ cabin rate of climb indicator ♦ climb a cliff ♦ climb a tree ♦ climb a wall ♦ climb about ♦ climb around ♦ climb cut ♦ climb down ♦ climb down the tree ♦ climb in ♦ climb mode ♦ climb on ♦ climb on the bandwagon ♦ climb out ♦ climb over ♦ climb over a wall ♦ climb performance ♦ climb speed ♦ climb the stairs ♦ climb through ♦ climb to ♦ climb to power ♦ climb turn ♦ climb up ♦ climb up again ♦ climb uphill ♦ climb upon ♦ cruise climb ♦ gradient of climb ♦ hard climb ♦ hill climb ♦ initial climb speed ♦ rapid climb ♦ rate of climb ♦ rate of climb and descent indicator ♦ rate of climb indicator ♦ steep climb ♦ stepped climb ♦ stiff climb ♦ To climb Parnassus. Additional references.

Beginning with "climb": climb-down, climb-downs, climb-me, climb-out, climb-possibly.

Ending with "climb": down-climb, easy-climb, hill-climb, ice-climb, monkey-climb, out-climb, rate-of-climb, rock-climb.

Afrikaans

opgaan (ascend, go up, tread, walk, walk upon), klim. (various references)

Albanian

rritje (accretion, advance, augmentation, boost, breeding, cultivation, development, evolution, expansion, extension, gain, germination, growth, increase, increment, intensification, nurture, progress, raise, upgrowth), rritem (advance, become adult, develop, grow up, move, redouble, run, shoot, thicken), ngrihem më lart, ngjitem (adhere, ascend, climb up, cling, come up, go up, knit, Mount, ride, scale, scramble, stick together, swarm up), ngjit (agglutinate, arrogate, ascribe, attach, attribute, braze, fuse, fuze, glue, gum, impute, Mount, paste, post, post up, put up, seal, solder, splice, stick, transmit, weld), ngjis (agglutinate, arrogate, ascribe, attach, attribute, braze, fuse, fuze, glue, gum, impute, Mount, paste, post, post up, put up, seal, solder, splice, stick, transmit, weld), kacavirrem (clamber, climb up, cling, creep, scramble, shin), hipje (ascent, jump, Mount, mounting, rise), hipi (embark, hippie, hippy, Longhair, Mount, rise, tower), bëj karierë. (various references)

Arabic 

‏تسلق ممر ضيق بين الجبال, ‏تسلق (ascent, creep, get over, get up, mount, mounting, ramble, scale, scaling, scramble, surmount, swarm, swarm up), ‏طلع (acquaint, ascend, be acquainted with, be updated, brief, go up, hip, inform, introduce, prime, rise, run down), ‏صعد (ascend, ascent, balloon, embark, escalate, go up, manacle, rise, scale, sublimate, uphill), ‏إرتفع (advance, arise, ascend, aspire, come in, flow, hike, lift, lift off, mount, snowball, soar, spring, tower, uplift). (various references)

Asturian

esguilar (climbing, to climb). (various references)

Aymara

makhatataña (to climb). (various references)

Basque

eskalatu (climb over to, scale to). (various references)

Bemba

ukunina (to climb). (various references)

Bulgarian 

качвам се (board, come up, get on, get up, go up, kite, step on), катеря се (scrabble, scramble, shin, shinny), катерене (scrabble, scramble), височина за изкачване, набирам височина, пълзя по, изкачване (ascension, ascent, climbing, hoist, rise), изкачвам се в обществото. (various references)

Cebuano

mokatkat (to climb). (various references)

Chamorro

para ma feddos (to climb). (various references)

Chinese 

登 (ascend, go up, mount, note, register, scale, to issue, to publish, to record), 爬 (crawl), 扒 (cling to, crawl, dig up, hold on to, pull, push aside, rake, snatch, to strip), 攀登 (clamber, scale), 上升 (Ascendant, Ascendent, Ascent, Climbed, Climbing, Raise, Raised, Raising, rise, risen, rising, uphill, uplifted). (various references)

Cornish

crambla (to climb). (various references)

Czech

šplhat (clamber). (various references)

Danish

klatre. (various references)

Dutch

klimmen (ascend, go up), klauteren. (various references)

Ecuadorian Quechua

sicana (climbing, to climb). (various references)

Esperanto

surgrimpi (ascend, scale), supreniri (ascend, go up), grimpi. (various references)

Faeroese

klintra, klíva. (various references)

Farsi 

ترقی کردن (Grow, Remunerate, Up, Upwell), صعودکردن (Ascend, Mount, Ramp, Rise, Soar, Up), بالارفتن (Ascend, Aspire, Boost, Lift, Soar, Up). (various references)

Finnish

kohota (advance, ascend, be promoted, go up, increase, rise), kiivetä, kavuta (clamber, climb a tree, scramble). (various references)

French

grimper (clamber), gravir, monter (clamp). (various references)

Frisian

kliuwe, klimme, bekliuwe (ascend, scale), bekladderje (ascend, scale). (various references)

German

steigen (arise, ascend, flow, get up, go up, increase, lift, Mount, move up, put up, rear, rise, rising, soar, step, stiles, to be on the increase), klettern (clamber, climbing, creep, creep up, ramble, rock climbing, scramble, shinny, spiral, to clamber, to climb), ersteigen (ascend, go up, scale), erklettern (scale), klimmen (clamber, scramble). (various references)

Greek 

σκαρφαλώνω (clamber, scramble, shin up, swarm), ανεβαίνω (ascend, climb up, come in, come up, get on, go up, mount, rise). (various references)

Hebrew 

לעלות (advance, ascend, florish, go up, grow, rise, uphill), להעפיל (strive upwards), לטפס (ascend, creep, scale, shin, swarm up), לנסוק (ascend, rise), נסיקה (climbing). (various references)

Hungarian

mászik (crawl, crept, to clamber, to climb, to crawl, to creep, to go at a crawl, to scramble), mászás (clamber, climbing, crawl, creep, scramble). (various references)

Indonesian

panjat, memanjat (clamber, shin), daki (ascend, grime, mount, skin-dirt). (various references)

Inuktitut

majuraqtuq (climbing, to climb). (various references)

Irish

tóg (take), dreap. (various references)

Italian

salire (advance, arise, ascend, come up, flood, get, get on, get up, go, go up, lift, Mount, ride up, rise, to go up), arrampicarsi (clamber, climbing, scale, scramble, shin, trail), montare (assemble, blow up, come up, cover, edit, exaggerate, fit, get big-headed, get on, go up, Mount, mount on, pitch, put together, ride, rise, set, to assemble, whip, whisk). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

高上がり (climb high, more expensive than expected), 登る　 (to climb), 登る (to climb), ヒドロムシ類 (CHI, close call, fuse, fuse cock, HE, hearing, heuristic, Hewlett, Hewlett Packard, Hilbert, hill, hill climb, hillbilly music, Himalaya, Houston, HP, HR, human, human assessment, human document, human ecology, human engineering, human interest, human interface, human relations, humanism, humanist, humanistic, humanity, humanization, humanlike, humanoid, hut, hydrozoan, hypochondria, interview, listening comprehension, near miss, public hearing), 急上昇 (steep climb, sudden rise, zoom), 攀じ登る (clamber, to claw one's way up, to climb, to scale, to scramble), 乗り越える (to climb over, to ride across, to surmount), 伝って登る (to climb up, to shin up), よじ登る (to climb), 上がる (to accrue, to advance, to appreciate, to be offered, to be promoted, to call on, to climb up, to enter, to go up, to improve, to rise), 上る　 (to ascend, to be promoted, to climb, to go up, to rise), 上る (to add up to, to advance, to ascend, to be promoted, to climb, to come up, to go to, to go up, to rise, to sail up), 一合目 (the start of a climb up a hill). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たかあがり (climb high, more expensive than expected), ヒルクライム (hill climb), きゅうじょうしょう (steep climb, sudden rise, zoom), のぼる (to add up to, to advance, to arise, to ascend, to be promoted, to climb, to come up, to go to, to go up, to rise, to sail up), のりこえる (to climb over, to ride across, to surmount), つたってのぼる (to climb up, to shin up), いちごうめ (the start of a climb up a hill), あがる (to accrue, to advance, to appreciate, to be captured, to be offered, to be promoted, to become prosperous, to call on, to climb up, to enter, to go up, to improve, to rise), よじのぼる (clamber, to claw one's way up, to climb, to scale, to scramble). (various references)

Kongo

ku-manta (to climb). (various references)

Korean 

상승 (lift, rise). (various references)

Macedonian

se iskachi (to climb). (various references)

Manx

irree (accrue, ascent; passion, emotion, get off, get up, heave, levee, lift, lilt, rise, stand up, step up, swarm, take off, take off as plane, tip, turn out), drappal (ascend, ascent, clamber, escalade, mount, scale, trail, trail of plant), croghey (bank on, cling, depend, drape, fly, hang, hinge, hinge as story, hoist, jack up, lean on, loft, pendant, pitch, sheer, spring, suspension, swing), ardjaghey (change up, increase, inflation, level up, lift, mount up, outbid, overbid, pitch, prefer, preferment, promote, promotion, put up, ramp, steepen, worsen, worsen as fever). (various references)

Maori

kake-a (to climb). (various references)

Mohawk

-erathenhs (to climb up). (various references)

Norwegian

klatre. (various references)

Occitan

pojar (go up), escalar. (various references)

Papago

cheshaj (to climb). (various references)

Papiamen

subi (ascend, go up, lever, lift, raise). (various references)

Pig Latin

imbclay.(various references)

Polish

iść w górę (ascend, go up). (various references)

Portuguese

escalada (clamber, clambering, climbing, escalade, scaling, upswing). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

suba. (various references)

Provencal

pojar (to climb). (various references)

Romanian

cãţãrare, cãţãra pe, urcare (accession, ascension, ascent, climbing, heave, rise, scrambling, up), urca pe (Mount), sui, se retrage (adjourn, crane, cry off, draw back, draw off, efface, fall back, give way, make one's bow, move back, repair in, repair to, retire, retract, retreat, shrink, shrink from, stand back, step aside, withdraw), escalada (escalate, scale, swarm), da înapoi (blench, check, fall back, move back, put away, recede, recoil, repay), ascensiune (advancement, ascension, ascent, climbing). (various references)

Romany

inkyàva naprù (to climb). (various references)

Ruanda

kurira (climbing, to climb). (various references)

Russian 

подниматься (ascend, come up for air, get up, lift, picked up, raise, rise, risen, run up to, swell, up, upheave). (various references)

Samoan

e a'e (to climb). (various references)

Scottish

streap (scale, scaling, strive against obstacles, striving), dìrich (straighten). (various references)

Sepedi

namela (to climb). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

verati se (clamber, climb up, scramble), veranje (climbing), uzbrdica (acclivity, rise), uspeti (bring off, come through, make good, pan out, pull off, succeed), popeti se (go up, mount, scale), penjanje (ascension, ascent, climbing, rising). (various references)

Shona

-kwira (to climb). (various references)

Sicilian

acchianari (to climb). (various references)

Spanish

trepar (clamber, scale, shin up, trail), subir (advance, arise, ascend, bump up, carry up, come up, get into, get up, go up, lift, move up, raise, rise, step up, take up, upload, walk up), subida (accession, acclivity, advance, appreciation, ascent, clamber, improvement, increase, lifting, raise, rise, rising), escalar (ascend, break in, burglarize, escalade, escalate, scalar, scale), ascender (add up to, advance, ascend, come to, elevate, prefer, promote, rise, scale, total). (various references)

Sranan

kren. (various references)

Swazi

kú-khwéla (to climb). (various references)

Swedish

klättra (clamber, scramble, trail), kliva (stalk, stride), klänga (cling, trail). (various references)

Tagalog

umakyát, umáakyát (ascend, go up), akyatín. (various references)

Thai

ปีน (ascend, scramble), ค่อยๆ เพิ่มขึ้น. (various references)

Turkish

yükselmek (arise, ascend, be in the ascendant, be in the ascendent, develop, escalate, flow, gain, get one's promotion, go up, harden, heighten, improve, Louden, nose up, rear up, rise, scale up, soar, steepen, step up, sublime, swell, tower, upheave, upsurge, work one's way up), yükselme (advance, advancement, ascension, ascent, distinction, escalation, flux, gain, hike, increase, pickup, preferment, progress, promotion, promotional, raise, rise, rising, scaling, step up, swell, swelling, upheaval, uprising, upsurge, upthrust), tirmanmak, tırmanmak (ascend, clamber, cling, entwine, intwine, scale, shin, shinny, soar, swarm, swarm up), tırmanma (ascent, climbing, clinging, hill climb), tırmanış (climbing, clinging, scramble), sarılarak tırmanmak (clamber, shin up, swarm, swarm up), aşama kaydetmek, çıkmak (ascend, break out, break through, come about, come off, come on, come out, come to a head, come up, crop out, date, date up, detach, drop out, emanate, emerge, erupt, escalate, eventuate, exit, extricate oneself, extrude, flirt, get off, go for, go forth, go off, go out, go together, go with, grow out of, grow up, hatch, have it's source in, issue, jut, jut out, keep company with, knock about, knock around, launch, launch out, move out, occur, originate, peep, peep out, photograph, point, present oneself, prove, puff out, puff up, pull out, pullulate, quit, rise, rub off, rub out, sally forth, sally out, secede, separate, shoot out, spoon, spring, stem, step out, step up, stick, stick out, take it's source from, take out, take to, walk out, walk out of, walk out with, well forth, work out). (various references)

Turkmen 

яokary зykmak, яarmaюmak, hopba bolmak, dyrmaюmak. (various references)

Ukrainian

сходження (ascension, ascent, climbing), робити кар'єру, крутитися (circle, flail, jib, pivot, reel, slue, spin, wangle), витися (clamber, creep, curl, frizzle, snake, wave, wind, wreathe), вилазити, видиратися (walk up), набирання висоти, підніматися (ascend, jump, lift, surge, walk up, well), піднесення (ascension, effervescence, effervescency, exaltation, lift, lifting, pathos, presentation, spring tide, sublimation, upturn, wave), дертися (clamber, shin). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vật phải trèo lên, sự leo trèo vật trèo qua. (various references)

Welsh

dringo (ascend). (various references)

Zulu

-enyuka (ascend, go up). (various references)

adsurrexisse, ascendam, ascendamus, ascendant, ascendas, ascendat, ascendatis, ascende, ascendebamus, ascendebant, ascendebantque, ascendebantur, ascendebat, ascendebatur, ascendemus, ascendens, ascendensque, ascendent, ascendente, ascendentem, ascendentes, ascendentesque, ascendentibus, ascenderant, ascenderantque, ascenderat, ascendere, ascenderent, ascenderet, ascenderint, ascenderit, ascenderitis, ascendero, ascenderunt, ascenderuntque, ascendes, ascendesque, ascendet, ascendetis, ascendi, ascendimus, ascendisse, ascendissemus, ascendissent, ascendisset, ascendisti, ascendistis, ascendit, ascendite, ascenditis, ascenditque, ascendo, ascendunt, ascensis, ascensu, ascensum, ascensura, ascensuri, ascensurus, ascensus, escendo, escendo, -scensi, scensum, scandens, succedente, succedentibus, succedere, succederet, succedit, succedunt, successerant, successerit, successerunt, successit, successu, successum, successus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.