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Mountaineer vs Cragger - What's the difference?

mountaineer | cragger |

As nouns the difference between mountaineer and cragger

is that mountaineer is someone who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure while cragger is (informal) a mountaineer.

mountaineer

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Someone who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure.
  • (rare) Someone who lives in a mountainous area.
  • * Milton
    • No savage fierce, bandit, or mountaineer .

    Related terms

    * mountaineering

    See also

    * alpinist

    Synonyms

    * mountain climber

    Anagrams

    * enumeration

    cragger

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (informal) A mountaineer.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2008, date=March 2, author=Bruce Barcott, title=The Higher They Climb, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=An athletic kid from New Jersey, Fischer was known as a bold risk taker ?— they called him “the fallingest man in climbing” ?—? until an old-school cragger taught him the Zen of controlled ascent. }}