climbing

• HYPHEN: climb=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

climbing, p. pr. & vb. n. 

 p. pr. & vb. n. of Climb.  [1913 Webster]

Climbing fern. See under Fern. -- Climbing perch. (Zoöl.) See Anabas, and Labyrinthici.

THESAURUS

climbing

Brownian movement, acclinate, acclivitous, advance, ambition, ambitiousness, anabasis, anabatic, angular motion, ascendant, ascending, ascension, ascensional, ascensive, ascent, axial motion, backflowing, backing, backward motion, career, careerism, clamber, climb, course, current, descending, descent, downward motion, drift, driftage, ebbing, elevation, escalade, flight, flow, flux, forward motion, fountain, gush, gyring up, in the ascendant, increase, jet, jump, leap, leaping, levitation, lofty ambition, magnanimity, mount, mounting, oblique motion, ongoing, onrush, passage, plunging, power-hunger, progress, radial motion, rampant, random motion, rearing, reflowing, refluence, reflux, regression, retrogression, rise, rising, rocketing up, run, rush, saltation, saltatory, scandent, scansorial, set, shooting up, sideward motion, sinking, skyrocketing, soaring, social climbing, spiraling, spout, spring, springing, spurt, status-seeking, sternway, stream, subsiding, surge, takeoff, taking off, traject, trajet, trend, uparching, upclimb, upcoming, updraft, upgang, upgo, upgoing, upgrade, upgrowth, uphill, uphillward, upleap, uplift, upping, uprisal, uprise, uprising, uprush, upshoot, upslope, upsloping, upsurge, upsurgence, upsweep, upswing, upward, upward motion, upwith, vault, vaulting ambition, zooming