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Climbing

A sport to climb up mountains (usually with steep cliffs) or walls with one's hands and feet.

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Gym climbing

Sports; Climbing

Climbing indoors, on artificial climbing walls. This is typically for training but many people consider this a worthwhile activity in its own right.

Multi-pitch climbing

Sports; Climbing

Climbing on routes that are too long for a single belay rope.

Static

Sports; Climbing

Of a style of climbing or specific move, not dynamic.

Lieback

Sports; Climbing

Or layback. A climbing move that involves pulling on the hands while pushing on the feet.

Polish

Sports; Climbing

On popular routes, the sheer passage of traffic can polish the rock to such an extent as to make the climbing much more difficult. This is most common at the crux, and on certain rock types.

Moving together

Sports; Climbing

Method of climbing – used on easy Alpine ground – in which two or more climbers climb at the same time with running belays between them and fixed belays not being used. Similar to simulclimbing, a ...

Fourteener

Sports; Climbing

Mountain that tops 14,000 feet (4,300 m) in the contiguous United States.

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