rock climber

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   a climber of vertical rock faces

   Synonymscragsman

   Broaderclimber

Questions about rock climber

What does rock climber mean?

rock climber means "a climber of vertical rock faces".

What is another word for rock climber?

Close synonyms include cragsman. 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 rock climber a common word?

rock climber 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.