mountain climber

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Noun

mountain climber (plural mountain climbers)

1. Someone who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure.
2. An exercise starting in a plank position with hands and possibly feet wider than the shoulders where the knees are adducted to the head or elbows alternatingly without lifting the braced hip.

   Holonym: black widow knee slide (+ donkey kick)

   Near-synonyms: (same but adducing the legs rather sidewise) spiderman plank, spiderman crunch, spiderman plank crunch

Synonyms

• mountaineer

Translations

mountain climber — see mountaineer

exercise adducting legs from plank position

• Finnish: vuorikiipeilijä (fi)
• German: Bergsteiger (de) m

See also

• mountain guide