1. Go upward with gradual or continuous progress
   "Did you ever climb up the hill behind your house?";
   - climb up, mount, go up, ascend
    
2. Move with effort, by grasping
   "The toddler climbed onto the chair"
    
3. Go up or advance
   "Sales were climbing after prices were lowered";
   - wax, mount, rise
    
4. Slope upward
   "The path climbed all the way to the top of the hill"
    
5. Improve one's social status
   "This young man knows how to climb the social ladder"
    
6. Increase in value or to a higher point
   "prices climbed steeply";
   - rise, go up

1. An upward slope or grade (as in a road)
   "the car couldn't make it up the climb"; "The truck struggled to climb the steep raise";
   - ascent, acclivity, rise, raise, upgrade [N. Amer]
    
2. An event that involves rising to a higher point (as in altitude, temperature or intensity etc.)
   "The climb of the mercury in the thermometer indicated a heatwave was approaching";
   - climbing, mounting
    
3. The act of climbing something
   "it was a difficult climb to the top";
   - mount

Sounds like: clime

Derived forms: climbs, climbed, climbing

Type of: advance, arise, ascending, ascension, ascent, come along, come on, come up, get along, get on, go up, grow, incline, increase, lift, move, move up, pitch, progress, rise, rising, shape up, side, slope, uprise [archaic, literary]

Encyclopedia: Climb