| NOUN | person | mountaineer, mountain climber | someone who climbs mountains |
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| VERB | motion | mountaineer | climb mountains for pleasure as a sport |
| Sounds | maw'ntihnih.r | |
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| Rhymes | acyclovir ... zaire / Zaire: 93 rhymes with ihr... | |
| Meaning | someone who climbs mountains. | |
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| Synonym | mountain climber | |
| Instances | Hillary, Edmund Hillary, Sir Edmund Hillary, Sir Edmund Percival Hillary | New Zealand mountaineer who in 1953 first attained the summit of Mount Everest with his Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay (born in 1919) |
| Tenzing Norgay | Sherpa mountaineer guide who with Sir Edmund Hillary was one of the first to attain the summit of Mount Everest (1914-1986) | |
| Narrower | alpinist | A mountain climber who specializes in difficult climbs |
| Broader | adventurer, venturer | A person who enjoys / enjoys / enjoys taking risks |
| climber | someone who climbs as a sport | |
| Spanish | alpinista, montañero | |
| Catalan | alpinista, muntanyenc | |
| Nouns | mountain | a land mass that projects well above its surroundings |
| Verbs | mountaineer | climb mountains for pleasure as a sport |
| Meaning | climb mountains for pleasure as a sport. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s | |
| Category | sport, athletics | An active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition |
| Entailed by | rappel, abseil, rope down | lower oneself with a rope coiled around the body from a mountainside |
| Broader | climb, climb up, mount, go up | go upward with gradual or continuous progress |
| Spanish | escalar | |
| Catalan | escalar | |
| Nouns | mountaineer | someone who climbs mountains |
| mountaineering | the activity of climbing a mountain | |
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