4 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Climber \Climb"er\, n. One who, or that which, climbs: (a) (Bot.) A plant that climbs. (b) (Zool.) A bird that climbs, as a woodpecker or a parrot. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Climber \Climb"er\, v. i. [From {Climb}; cf. {Clamber}.] To climb; to mount with effort; to clamber. [Obs.] --Tusser. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: climber n 1: a vine or climbing plant that readily grows up a support or over other plants 2: someone seeking social prominence by obsequious behavior [syn: {social climber}] 3: someone who ascends on foot; "a solitary mounter of the staircase" [syn: {mounter}] 4: someone who climbs as a sport; especially someone who climbs mountains; "the lead climber looked strong still but his partner often slumped in his ropes" 5: an iron spike attached to the shoe to prevent slipping on ice when walking or climbing [syn: {crampon}, {crampoon}, {climbing iron}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 103 Moby Thesaurus words for "climber": adventurer, algae, alpinist, ascender, astronaut, autophyte, bean, bracken, brown algae, camper, comers and goers, commuter, conferva, confervoid, cosmopolite, cragsman, creeper, cruiser, diatom, excursionist, explorer, fare, fern, fruits and vegetables, fucus, fungus, globe-girdler, globe-trotter, goer, grapevine, green algae, gulfweed, hajji, herb, heterophyte, ivy, jet set, jet-setter, journeyer, kelp, legume, lentil, liana, lichen, liverwort, mariner, mold, moss, mountaineer, mushroom, palmer, parasite, parasitic plant, passenger, passerby, pathfinder, pea, perthophyte, phytoplankton, pilgrim, pioneer, planktonic algae, plant families, puffball, pulse, red algae, rockweed, rubberneck, rubbernecker, rust, sailor, saprophyte, sargasso, sargassum, sea lentil, sea moss, sea wrack, seaweed, sightseer, smut, straphanger, succulent, toadstool, tourer, tourist, trailblazer, trailbreaker, transient, traveler, trekker, tripper, upclimber, vetch, viator, vine, visiting fireman, voortrekker, voyager, voyageur, wayfarer, world-traveler, wort, wrack
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