1580s, "act of climbing," from climb (v.). Meaning "an ascent by climbing" is from 1915, originally in aviation.

Old English climban "raise oneself using hands and feet; rise gradually, ascend; make an ascent of" (past tense clamb, past participle clumben, clumbe), from West Germanic *klimban "go [..]

to ascend or go up.

ascent: an upward slope or grade (as in a road); "the car couldn't make it up the rise" go upward with gradual or continuous progress; "Did you ever [..]

to move upwards using your feet and sometimes our hands to hold on

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(n) an upward slope or grade (as in a road)(n) an event that involves rising to a higher point (as in altitude or temperature or intensity etc.)(n) the act of climbing something(v) go upward with grad [..]

On the climb. Under the hope of promotion. Thomas Becket, after he became Cardinal-archbishop of Canterbury, was at the top of the tree, and no further promotion was in the power of the king to bestow [..]

The amount of uphill climbing (ignoring downhill travel) that must be done to complete a course. Some routes may minimize climb, but be quite long. Others may be short, but have a lot of climb. The co [..]