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Climbing vs Hopping - What's the difference?

climbing | hopping |

As nouns the difference between climbing and hopping

is that climbing is the sport of climbing, ascending a wall or a rock or another object using available holds, generally with the safety of a rope and belayer while hopping is hop picking, the practice of picking hops; for Londoners a holiday period working in the hop gardens of Kent.

As verbs the difference between climbing and hopping

is that climbing is present participle of lang=en while hopping is present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective climbing

is that climbs; that grows upwards by gripping onto a surface.

climbing

English

Noun

(wikipedia climbing) (en-noun)
  • (uncountable) The sport of climbing, ascending a wall or a rock or another object using available holds, generally with the safety of a rope and belayer.
  • (countable) Climb; ascent.

    • See also

    * bouldering

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • (botany, of a plant) That climbs; that grows upwards by gripping onto a surface.

    • hopping

    English

    Etymology 1

    Alternative spelling () of

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (British) hop picking, the practice of picking hops; for Londoners a holiday period working in the hop gardens of Kent.
  • * Hopping Down in Kent , Alan Bignell (1977).
  • * 1915 , ":
  • *:He took his whole family to a hop-field in Kent, not far from Mrs. Athelny's home, and they spent three weeks hopping .
  • The addition of hops during the production of beer as a flavouring agent

    • Etymology 2

    to hop

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who, or that which, hops; a jumping, frisking, or dancing.
  • (countable, physics) A shift from one energy-state to another by an electron in an atom.