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Creeping vs Climbing - What's the difference?

creeping | climbing |

As verbs the difference between creeping and climbing

is that creeping is while climbing is .

As nouns the difference between creeping and climbing

is that creeping is the act of something that creeps 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.

creeping

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of something that creeps.
  • * 1824 , Timothy Dwight, Theology, Explained and Defended in a Series of Sermons
  • It is indubitably certain, therefore, that he is able to attend, and actually attends, to all things at the same moment; to the motions of a seed, or a leaf, or an atom; to the creepings of a worm, the flutterings of an insect, and the journeys of a mite

    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.