mountain climbing

1. 1.

   the activity of climbing a mountain

   Synonymsmountaineering

   Broaderclimb

   NarrowerAlpinism

Questions about mountain climbing

What does mountain climbing mean?

mountain climbing means "the activity of climbing a mountain".

What is another word for mountain climbing?

Close synonyms include mountaineering. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mountain climbing a common word?

mountain climbing is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.