clambering
present participle ofclamber
clamber
verb[Iusually+ adv/prep]
uk/ˈklæm.bər/us/ˈklæm.bɚ/toclimbup,across, or intosomewherewithdifficulty, using thehandsand thefeet:
They clamberedover/uptherocks.
I clamberedinto/ontothebus.
She clamberedintobed.
Synonyms
scramble
shin
shinnyUS
to move onto or towards the top of something
- climbIt was an effort to climb the stairs.
- ascendShe ascended the podium and began to speak.
- scaleHe claims to have scaled every peak of the Himalayas.
- mountThe cowboy mounted his horse and rode off into the sunset.
Moving upwards
- ascend
- ascension
- ascent
- be on an upward/downward trajectoryidiom
- bristle
- clamber
- come up
- heave
- hoick
- levitate
- levitation
- mount
- pull
- rear
- rise
- scale
- scramble
- shin
- shinny
- trajectory
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Moving on your hands and legs or on your stomach
Examplesofclambering
clambering
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
It has been said, perhaps not unfairly, that that demand resembles the attitude of someoneclamberinginto a taxi without knowing his destination.
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There has been speculation in the media that troops on operations spend much of their timeclamberingover knocked-out enemy armoured vehicles.
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The quarrymen have to goclamberingover rocky ledges and over precipices with death 60 or 70 feet below them.
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The choice lies betweenclamberingalong the difficult road of hope and taking a free ride down into the depths of despair.
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They are generally shy and seldom fly, instead foarge mostly byclamberingup reeds and grasses, often quite agilely.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.They are acrobatic birds, well-adapted forclamberingthrough trees.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.All of a sudden, he hears police sirens, which are followed by a car stopping, and thenclamberingfootsteps.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Everyone left their careers at the roadside beforeclamberingthe stairs and plunging into questionable behaviour.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The lesser swamp warbler is usually seen alone or in pairs, moving through wetland reedbeds, andclamberingup and down reed stems.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Most live in scrubland and frequently hunt food byclamberingthrough thick tangled growth or pursuing it on the ground.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is sometimes abundant in disturbed parts of recently cleared plantations or woods,clamberingover wood debris.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In the initial attack, battle group 380 captured 2 blockhouses byclamberingon their roofs and dropping explosive charges into their embrasures.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Some resemble coucals in their habit ofclamberingthrough plant tangles while foraging, while the arboreal species move between tree canopies with gliding flight.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is an agile forager, clinging andclamberingthrough the branches and sometimes joining mixed hunting parties along with species such as drongos and babblers.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.We could never understand how they remained so, even when he wasclamberingon dirty roofs or in and out of trenches.
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