climb

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To move upward, especially by using the hands and feet.
• intransitive verb To move in a specified direction by using the hands and feet.
• intransitive verb To engage in the activity or sport of mountain climbing.
• intransitive verb To rise slowly or steadily; ascend: synonym: rise.
• intransitive verb To slant or slope upward.
• intransitive verb To grow in an upward direction, as some plants do, often by means of twining stems or tendrils.
• intransitive verb To move upward on or mount, especially by using the hands and feet or the feet alone; ascend.
• intransitive verb To grow in an upward direction on or over.
• noun An act of climbing; an ascent.
• noun A place to be climbed.
• idiom (climb the walls) To be anxious or frantic.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A climbing; an ascent by climbing.
• To mount or ascend; especially, ascend by means of both the hands and the feet.
• Hence Figuratively, to rise slowly as if by climbing; ascend; rise.
• Specifically, of plants, to ascend by means of tendrils or adhesive fibers, or by twining the stem or leaf-stalk round a support, as ivy and honeysuckle.
• To go up on or surmount, especially by the use of both the hands and feet.
• Hence Figuratively, to ascend or mount as if by climbing.
• To attain as if by climbing; achieve slowly or with effort.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun The act of one who climbs; ascent by climbing.
• transitive verb To ascend, as by means of the hands and feet, or laboriously or slowly; to mount.
• intransitive verb To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet.
• intransitive verb To ascend as if with effort; to rise to a higher point.
• intransitive verb (Bot.) To ascend or creep upward by twining about a support, or by attaching itself by tendrils, rootlets, etc., to a support or upright surface.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb intransitive To ascend; rise; to go up.
• verb transitive To mount; to move upwards on.
• verb transitive To scale; to get to the top of something.
• verb transitive To move (especially up and down something) by gripping with the hands and using the feet.
• verb intransitive to practise the sport of climbing
• verb intransitive to jump high
• verb To move to a higher position on the social ladder.
• verb botany Of plants, to grow upwards by clinging to something.
• noun An act of climbing.
• noun The act of getting to somewhere more elevated.
• noun An upwards struggle

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun an event that involves rising to a higher point (as in altitude or temperature or intensity etc.)
• noun the act of climbing something
• verb move with difficulty, by grasping
• verb go up or advance
• noun an upward slope or grade (as in a road)
• verb slope upward
• verb improve one's social status
• verb go upward with gradual or continuous progress
• verb increase in value or to a higher point