free climbern.
/ˈfriː ˌklʌɪmə/, U.S. /ˈfri ˌklaɪmər/ Mountaineering and Rock Climbing.
A climber who undertakes free climbs.In quot. 1932: spec. a person who climbs at high altitude without the aid of oxygen apparatus.
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1932 F. E. Younghusband in Times 1 Feb. 13/5 There must be no division of mind between oxygenists and free-climbers... Free-climbers have already reached 28,000ft. Men carrying loads have reached 27,000ft.
1964 R. Westmoreland Adventures in Climbing iii. 55 The artificial aid climber can go where the free climber cannot.
1998 Daily Mail (Nexis) 23 Sept. 9 I cannot relate at all to the free climbers or base jumpers who do that for kicks. It seems that you either succeed or you fail and failure is death.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1932- top kill
- top lacing
- top lift
- top light
- top lighting
- top line
- top loader
- top loading
- top loft
- top loin
- top marks
- top minnow
- top minor
- top ne more
- top note
- top of flood
- top of mind
- top of speculation
- top of the bill
- top of the class
- top of the heap
- top of the hour
- top of the ladder
- top of the milk
- top of the morning