- to go up or ascend, especially by using the hands and feet or feet only: to climb up a ladder.
- to rise slowly by or as if by continued effort: The car laboriously climbed to the top of the mountain.
- to ascend or rise: The plane climbed rapidly and we were soon at 35,000 feet. Temperatures climbed into the 80s yesterday.
- to slope upward: The road climbs steeply up to the house.
- to ascend by twining or by means of tendrils, adhesive tissues, etc., as a plant: The ivy climbed to the roof.
- to proceed or move by using the hands and feet, especially on an elevated place; crawl: to climb along a branch; to climb around on the roof.
- to ascend in prominence, fortune, etc.: From lowly beginnings he climbed to the highest office in the land.
- to ascend, go up, or get to the top of, especially by the use of the hands and feet or feet alone or by continuous or strenuous effort: to climb a rope; to climb the stairs; to climb a mountain.
- to go to the top of and over: The prisoners climbed the wall and escaped.
- a climbing; an ascent by climbing: It was a long climb to the top of the hill.
- a place to be climbed: That peak is quite a climb.
- climb down,
- to descend, especially by using both hands and feet.
- to retreat, as from an indefensible opinion or position: He was forced to climb down from his untenable position.
- wall (def. 15).
- to go up or ascend (stairs, a mountain, etc)
- to progress with difficulty
- to rise to a higher point or intensity
- to incline or slope upwards
- to ascend in social position
- (of plants) to grow upwards by twining, using tendrils or suckers, etc
- to put (on) or get (into)
- to be a climber or mountaineer
- the act or an instance of climbing
- a place or thing to be climbed, esp a route in mountaineering
