noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
social climber
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
good
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She loved travel, took walking and cycling holidays abroad, and was a good mountain climber .
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Solly's climb was to perplex and stretch the best climbers for decades.
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The best climbers in the school were picked for the hunt and they set out, one on each shelf.
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Henry Druce meets the man behind the image Chris Bonington is Britain's best known climber and adventurer.
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But he's a good climber .
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Rarely a day passes when, at some time, the rock isn't ripe for climbing. Good news for climbers .
social
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He's got to be the biggest social climber of all time.
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We are all self-promoters and social climbers .
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There may be honour among thieves, but there did not appear to be anything similar among social climbers .
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It came to be controlled by a contingent of WASPs, wannabe WASPs, and social climbers .
■ NOUN
mountain
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She loved travel, took walking and cycling holidays abroad, and was a good mountain climber .
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Lionel Terray said mountain climber Pierre Lachenal broke many climbing records not by setting out to do so.
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Take a mountain climber , a Grand Prix racing-driver or a person conquering a devastating handicap.
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Wearing a pair of tennis shoes, he walked up the steep hill with the energy of a young mountain climber .
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An experienced mountain climber , Gray rested, enjoying lunch and the view.
rock
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He's also an accomplished rock climber .
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She has been a keen walker and rock climber for many years and has climbed in the Alps, Pyrenees and Dolomites.
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On this route you will be able to visit the Wasdale Head Inn, a once favourite haunt of rock climbers .
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Many feature spectacular limestone cliffs of the sort that rock climbers find irresistible.
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Our finest rock climbers have become obsessed by performance, by standards and numbers.
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From there he told Wesley Smith about his life as a railway enthusiast, composer and rock climber .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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an experienced climber
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The search is still continuing for a group of climbers reported missing in the Scottish highlands.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At the base, we're looking at the photos of celebrity climbers.
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Graham was a pioneer rock and winter climber before a broken leg turned him to sailing.
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Support comes from a team of three experienced climbers and a paramedic.
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The climbers who can be dangerous are always ego-driven, and I stay away from them.
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The astronauts shape up before their missions by working with small weights, and doing exercises designed for rock climbers.
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Who makes a profit from cramming more climbers on to our cliffs?
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Why so many climbers unwittingly created so much visual pollution?