rock climbing

1. 1.

   the sport or pastime of scaling rock masses on mountain sides (especially with the help of ropes and special equipment)

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Questions about rock climbing

What does rock climbing mean?

rock climbing means "the sport or pastime of scaling rock masses on mountain sides (especially with the help of ropes and special equipment)".

Is rock climbing a common word?

rock 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.