climb

1. (intransitive) To ascend; rise; to go up.Examples: "Prices climbed steeply."; "Black vapours climb aloft, and cloud the day."; "So we continue climbing to the saddle of the Kleine Scheidegg, where ahead there comes into view the wide expanse of the Grindelwald valley, backed by the snowy crown of the Wetterhorn."intransitive

2. (transitive) To mount; to move upwards on.Examples: "climbing a tree"; "They climbed the mountain."; "Other Hooverian devices become familiar too. Characters often have names that are so obscure they barely seem like real names (Ryle, Lowen, Chastin, Atlas, Crew) but might wind up climbing the baby name list — now you know why — in a few years’ time."transitive

3. (transitive) To scale; to get to the top of something.Examples: "He is a curly-haired schoolboy barely in his teens, but 13-year-old Jordan Romero from California has become the youngest person to climb Mount Everest."Synonyms: scaletransitive

4. (transitive) To move (especially up and down something) by gripping with the hands and using the feet.Examples: "My legs were so stiff and my arms so sore that this morning barely could climb out of bed."; "A priest clad in a white robe climbs the tree and with a golden sickle cuts the mistletoe, which is caught in a white cloth."; "She thought she must have been mistaken at first, for none of the scarecrows in Kansas ever wink; but presently the figure nodded its head to her in a friendly way. Then she climbed down from the fence and walked up to it, while Toto ran around the pole and barked."transitive

5. (intransitive) To practise the sport of climbing.intransitive

6. (intransitive) To jump high.Examples: "The defender climbed majestically at the near post to convert Johnson's corner."; "As the game moved towards injury time, the Ospreys forced a line-out which Jonathan Thomas climbed high to take."; "Four minutes of stoppage time were virtually up when Ricketts climbed to head in the equaliser from substitute Nicky Southall's centre."intransitive