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Crawling vs Climbing - What's the difference?

crawling | climbing |

As verbs the difference between crawling and climbing

is that crawling is while climbing is .

As nouns the difference between crawling and climbing

is that crawling is the motion of something that crawls while climbing is (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.

As an adjective climbing is

(botany|of a plant) that climbs; that grows upwards by gripping onto a surface.

crawling

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The motion of something that crawls.
  • * Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop
  • Miss Brass devoted herself with uncommon ardour to the study of the law; not wasting her speculations upon its eagle flights, which are rare, but tracing it attentively through all the slippery and eel-like crawlings in which it commonly pursues its way.

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    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.