MOUNTAIN CLIMBING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mountain climbing mean? 

• MOUNTAIN CLIMBING (noun)
  The noun MOUNTAIN CLIMBING has 1 sense:

1. the activity of climbing a mountain

  Familiarity information: MOUNTAIN CLIMBING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOUNTAIN CLIMBING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The activity of climbing a mountain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

mountain climbing; mountaineering

Hypernyms ("mountain climbing" is a kind of...):

climb; mount (the act of climbing something)

Domain member category:

abseil; rappel ((mountaineering) a descent of a vertical cliff or wall made by using a doubled rope that is fixed to a higher point and wrapped around the body)

aerodontalgia (pain in the teeth that results from a change in air pressure (as in flying or mountain climbing))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mountain climbing"):

Alpinism (mountain climbing (not restricted to the Alps))