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MOUNTAINEERING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The activity of climbing a mountain
Synonyms:
mountain climbing; mountaineering
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("mountaineering" 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 "mountaineering"):
Alpinism (mountain climbing (not restricted to the Alps))
Derivation:
mountaineer (climb mountains for pleasure as a sport)
