climbing

1. To ascend; rise; to go up.

   Prices climbed steeply.

2. To mount; to move upwards on.

   Climbing a tree

3. To scale; to get to the top of something.
4. To move (especially up and down something) by gripping with the hands and using the feet.
5. To practise the sport of climbing
6. To jump high
7. To move to a higher position on the social ladder.
8. Of plants, to grow upwards by clinging to something.

1. The sport of climbing, ascending a wall or a rock or another object using available holds, generally with the safety of a rope and belayer.

   The next day, the team had to wear special ice climbing footwear while repairing other research devices on the glacier.

2. Climb; ascent.

adjective

(of a plant) That climbs; that grows upwards by gripping onto a surface.