Usually means: Climbing awkwardly using hands, feet.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word clambering:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. clambering: Merriam-Webster
  2. clambering: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. clambering: Collins English Dictionary
  4. clambering: Vocabulary.com
  5. Clambering, clambering: Wordnik
  6. clambering: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. clambering: Wiktionary
  8. clambering: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Clambering, clambering: Dictionary.com
  10. clambering: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Clambering: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. Clambering: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. clambering: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. clambering: FreeDictionary.org
  15. clambering: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. clambering: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Clambering: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (clambering)

▸ noun:  The act of one who clambers.
▸ adjective:  Climbing

Similar:
scramble, shinny, struggle, sputter, shin, skin, clamoring, clampering, clamouring, clamourer, more...

Opposite:
descend, descend gracefully, descend smoothly, descend easily

Types:
rock climbing, tree climbing, bouldering, indoor climbing, ice climbing, free climbing, deep water soloing, urbclimbing, more...

Adjectives:
such, drunk, arboreal, much, little, perilous, arab, hard, improgressive, desperate, long

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Similar:
scramble, shinny, struggle, sputter, shin, skin, clamoring, clampering, clamouring, clamourer, more...

Opposite:
descend, descend gracefully, descend smoothly, descend easily

Types:
rock climbing, tree climbing, bouldering, indoor climbing, ice climbing, free climbing, deep water soloing, urbclimbing, more...

Adjectives:
such, drunk, arboreal, much, little, perilous, arab, hard, improgressive, desperate, long



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