Verb

To ascend; rise; to go up.

Prices climbed steeply.

* Dryden

Black vapours climb aloft, and cloud the day.

To mount; to move upwards on.

They climbed the mountain.

Climbing a tree

To scale; to get to the top of something.

* {{quote-news, year=2010, date=May 22, author=David Harrison

, title=American boy, 13, is youngest person to climb Everest , work=Daily Telegraph online citation , page= , passage=He is a curly-haired schoolboy barely in his teens, but 13-year-old Jordan Romero from California has become the youngest person to climb Mount Everest.}}

To move (especially up and down something) by gripping with the hands and using the feet.

* 1900 , (James Frazer), (The Golden Bough) Chapter 65

A priest clad in a white robe climbs the tree and with a golden sickle cuts the mistletoe, which is caught in a white cloth.

* 1900 , , ''(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)

She thought she must have been mistaken at first, for none of the scarecrows in Kansas ever wink; but presently the figure nodded its head to her in a friendly way. Then she climbed down from the fence and walked up to it, while Toto ran around the pole and barked.

* 2008 , Tony Atkins, Dragonhawk - the Turning

Cutter and Bolan climbed around the furniture and piled into the back of the truck.

to practise the sport of climbing

to jump high

* {{quote-news, year=2010, date=December 28

, author=Paul Fletcher, title=Man City 4 - 0 Aston Villa, work=BBC citation , page= , passage=The defender climbed majestically at the near post to convert Johnson's corner. }}

* {{quote-news, year=2008, date=September 13

, title=Ospreys Glasgow Magners League, work=South Wales Evening Post citation , page= , passage=As the game moved towards injury time, the Ospreys forced a line-out which Jonathan Thomas climbed high to take.}}

* {{quote-news, year=2001, date=December 29, author=Derick Allsop

, title=Bolton's nine men hit back to steal a point, work=Daily Telegraph online citation , page= , passage=Four minutes of stoppage time were virtually up when Ricketts climbed to head in the equaliser from substitute Nicky Southall's centre.}}

To move to a higher position on the social ladder.

(botany) Of plants, to grow upwards by clinging to something.

Verb

(scrambl)

To move hurriedly to a location, especially by using all limbs against a surface.

* {{quote-news

, year=2012 , date=18 April , author=Phil McNulty , title=Chelsea 1-0 Barcelona , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=As half-time approached Fabregas had another chance to give Barcelona the lead. He collected an incisive Messi pass and this time beat Cech, who required Cole to scramble back and clear the ball off the line.}}

* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 3

When I saw the coffin I knew that I was respited, for, as I judged, there was space between it and the wall behind enough to contain my little carcass; and in a second I had put out the candle, scrambled up the shelves, half-stunned my senses with dashing my head against the roof, and squeezed my body betwixt wall and coffin.

To proceed to a location or an objective in a disorderly manner.

(transitive, of food ingredients, usually, including egg) To thoroughly combine and cook as a loose mass.

I scrambled some eggs with spinach and cheese.

To process (telecommunication signals) to make them unintelligible to an unauthorized listener.

(military) To quickly enter (vehicles, usually aircraft) and proceed to a destination in response to an alert, usually to intercept an attacking enemy.

(sports) To partake in motocross.

To ascend rocky terrain as a leisure activity.

To gather or collect by scrambling.

to scramble up wealth

(Marlowe)

To struggle eagerly with others for something thrown upon the ground; to go down upon all fours to seize something; to catch rudely at what is desired.

* Milton

Of other care they little reckoning make, / Than how to scramble at the shearer's feast.