noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a climbing plant (= one that grows up things )
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The wall was covered with climbing plants.
climbing frame
climbing up the greasy pole
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a politician climbing up the greasy pole
rock climbing
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
good
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Who is best at climbing trees?
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Although we didn't quite make the top, it was a good day's climbing .
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The next best thing to climbing mountains is reading about them or attending slides-theatres or watching films.
■ NOUN
frame
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Now with her piggy back heart shinning up the climbing frame is childs play.
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Anna's arm hurt dreadfully, worse than when she'd fallen off the top of the climbing frame at the nursery.
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Here they are wearing their new outfits while playing on a climbing frame .
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This was a large amusement area filled with slides, rope swings and wooden climbing frames .
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To his right was a children's playground, a surreal landscape of climbing frames and unmoving swings.
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Later they had them set in a row near the climbing frame .
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Inside there was a climbing frame , Lego roundabout, swings and a wooden catapult for firing naughty children out of the castle.
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He then tried propping the others up on the climbing frame but they kept falling off.
hill
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Recall the version of hill climbing which depends on rules, in Chapter 2.
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Perhaps it could be large if the second derivative of f is small, and viceversa. Hill climbing has several limitations.
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They are instances of a method called hill climbing , which will be explained shortly.
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It is a hill climbing process which should avoid foothills, so the learning steps have to be small.
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This is a hill climbing algorithm.
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It is a sort of hill climbing .
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This process of fine adjustment is a form of hill climbing .
plant
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The patio was flanked by ancient brick walls covered in climbing plants and variegated ivy.
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It was covered with climbing plants , and clearly had not been used for years.
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The verandah is long and overgrown with climbing plants , which are wrapped around the varnished poles that support the tin roof.
rock
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I went canoeing, rock climbing and abseiling.
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Although largely unknown in Britain, Lafaille has an impressive rock climbing curriculum vitae.
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The blatant placing of a bolt in a Lakeland mountain crag produced considerable reaction throughout the rock climbing fraternity.
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Indeed, there is now little or none of the traditional progression or interweaving of rock climbing and other mountain activities.
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Five star rating Outward Bound centre - canoeing, caving, rock climbing pony trekking etc.
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On the way to the camp we passed a boulder where Tony and I competed for rock climbing idiot of the evening.
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There she will put her courage and dexterity to the test rock climbing , abseiling, sea kayaking, and canoeing.
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In summer tourists can go rock climbing or walking.
rose
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The skeletons of climbing roses , not yet in bud, trailed in a regimented way against a wall.
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The gold-winning Country Living entry celebrated her work with a nostalgic cottage-garden full of lupins, irises and climbing roses .
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It has been replaced with trellis which is planted with variegated euonymus, five clematis, a climbing rose and evergreen honeysuckles.
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The house is softened by sprawls of climbing roses .
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There were old rose trees everywhere, and the walls were covered with climbing roses.
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A mass of flowers covered the house, a pink climbing rose and a creamy clematis.
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A small wooden door, set into the stone wall, and half hidden beneath the hanging tendrils of a climbing rose .
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She wandered for a while under the climbing roses and clematis, coiled over wooden trellises to make shady walkways.
wall
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The campground has a terrific hot shower and a climbing wall and there are a number of good bouldering areas nearby.
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A climbing wall , sauna bath and solarium are also available in the Centre, together with a 25-metre swimming pool.
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It's the work of Grenobloise company named Alp'Roc who, until now, have been manufacturing normal climbing wall apparatus.
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The Club plans to launch an appeal for funds this year to build an urgently needed climbing wall in the Sports Centre.
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This year might see a difference, especially now the Foundry climbing wall is open.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be climbing the walls
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If I drank another cup of coffee, I'd be climbing the walls.
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Realizes he is moving in her desperately, as if he is climbing the walls of a closed building.
be climbing/crawling (up) the walls
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Realizes he is moving in her desperately, as if he is climbing the walls of a closed building.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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climbing equipment
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Accident insurance does not cover you for dangerous activities such as rock climbing .
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Dan taught me the basic techniques of rock climbing .
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Eva's hobbies are horse-riding, climbing , and aerobics.
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strong climbing boots
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And that was the beginning of Skye's climbing industry.
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Himalayan Climber provides a comprehensive photographic portrait of his remarkable climbing career.
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On the way to the camp we passed a boulder where Tony and I competed for rock climbing idiot of the evening.
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Since this year's race avoids the Pyrenean peaks, all the hard mountain climbing is concentrated into these two days.
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Some guides use their climbing and rope skills to work on oil rigs or construction sites.
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The rock is steep enough to require forceful climbing , but nuts drop in which a satisfying regularity.
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This time it is a 5.5-mile event with 1,400 feet of climbing at Nebo, near Penygroes.
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Why had he not continued climbing over the gate, said good-night, and gone off down the hill?