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# climb

«climb» in Mova's school dictionary: **to go up something, like stairs, a tree, a ladder or a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (climb, climbs, climbed, climbing); noun (a climb, climbs)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To climb is to go up something, like stairs, a tree, a ladder or a mountain, often using hands and feet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/climb/#m1)

2) To climb is also to go up in amount, like prices or temperatures climbing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/climb/#m2)

3) A climb is a trip up or a hard way up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/climb/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

maths: going up a height or a number of steps; up and slide back problems (snail in a well); prices or temperatures that climb rise; PE: climbing frames, rock climbing walls; nature: plants climb up walls; safety: hold on with both hands, wear a helmet, never climb on high shelves; phrases: «climb up», «climb down», «climb into bed»

### examples

- A snail climbs 3 feet each day and slides back 1. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/climb/#x1)
- She climbed 120 steps. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/climb/#x2)
- He climbs 500 meters in an hour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/climb/#x3)
- How high did they climb? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/climb/#x4)
- The cat climbed up the tree. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/climb/#x5)
- We climbed the hill to see the view. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/climb/#x6)
- Ivy climbs up the wall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/climb/#x7)
- The temperature climbed to 30 degrees. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/climb/#x8)
- Climb down the ladder slowly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/climb/#x9)
- Now he climbed the tree unhindered. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/climb/#x10)

### note

Climbing adds height. Trap: in climb and slip back problems, the last day has no slip back. The b is silent: say «klime». «Climb down» means go down.

### In the corpora

- [A wild animal spends most of its day busy: searching for food, digging, climbing, sniffing and chasing.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/112-training-and-enrichment/0/)
- [Tree kangaroos live in rainforests, climb with strong arms and can leap many metres down to the ground without getting hurt.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds/9/)
- [Goats prefer leaves, twigs and shrubs to grass, and in Morocco some goats climb argan trees to eat the fruit.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/211-sheep-and-goats-wool-flocks-climbers-and-the-tin-can-myth/10/)
- [A shallow dish of water in hot weather helps birds, bees and hedgehogs; a stone in it lets insects climb out.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/226-kindness-to-wild-animals/10/)
- [In Morocco goats climb argan trees to eat the fruit; goats test things with their mouths but cannot really eat tin cans.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/287-farm-animals-milk-eggs-wool-and-meat/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «climb» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/climb/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.