climb: an event that involves rising to a higher point (as in altitude or temperature or intensity etc.)
Climbing is the activity of using one's hands and/or one's feet to ascend a steep object. It is pursued both recreationally, either to get to a destination otherwise inaccessible, or for its own enjoyment, and also professionally, as part of activities such as maintenance of a structure, or ...
A fault in a horse's stride in which, instead of reaching out, his action is abnormally high.
Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles, ropes, and the like, using the feet and legs and/or hands and arms.
Some horses that tire at the end of a race appear to lift their front legs higher than usual and therefore shortening their stride. This is called climbing as the horse seems to climb stairs.
A Thoroughbred is said to be climbing when striding in an unnatural, upward fashion, not reaching out forward as in a coordinated gait.
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