Sekirov Dictionary

climber

UK /ˈklaɪmə/US /ˈklaɪmɚ/

noun 8
verb 1
forms 3

noun8

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Someone or something that climbs (such as a mountain climber).
- Police said evidence, including footprints, was found where they believe the climbers had begun to traverse the slopes beneath Zurbriggen Ridge. — 2024
A plant such as a vine that climbs upwards as it grows by attaching itself to some support.
A cyclist who specializes in riding especially well on steep hills or roads.
A bird that climbs, such as a parrot or woodpecker; specifically (archaic), a bird having two toes pointing forward, and two pointing backward, formerly regarded as being from the order Scansores or Zygodactyli (now obsolete as the birds formerly in this order have been reclassified into different orders); a zygodactyl.
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(figurative) A person who is constantly trying to get ahead socially.
- His mother was a climber, determined that her children should attend the right schools and generally succeed in what was still very much a WASP world. — 1977
Something that is used for climbing.
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Any structure on a playground designed to be climbed on.
- If his greatest hits are museum climbers that complement the subject matter in surrounding exhibits, then "the mall jobs," he says, which are more about color and composition, "are little ditties." — 2016
Synonym of climbing iron (“a kind of crampon attached to the shoe to aid with climbing”).

verb1

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(no longer used) To ascend or mount with effort; to clamber, to climb.
- Stick plentie of bows among runciuall pease / to climber thereon, and to branch at their ease. — 1878

forms

climbered · climbering · climbers

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