alpinism

English

Noun

alpinism (uncountable)

1. (sometimes capitalized) Mountain climbing, especially in the Alps.
   • 1912, "New Maps," Bulletin of the American Geographical Society, vol. 44, no. 7, p. 558,

     . . . our rapidly increasing knowledge of the Rocky Mountains of Canada for which geography is so greatly indebted to alpinism.

Related terms

• alpinist

Translations

• Croatian: alpinizam (hr) m.
• German: Alpinismus (de) m.

Anagrams

• Palinism