alpinism

English

Etymology

alpine +‎ -ism

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈælpɪnɪzəm/

Noun

alpinism (usually uncountable, plural alpinisms)

1. (sometimes capitalized) Mountain climbing.
   • 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.

Synonyms

• mountaineering

Related terms

• alpinist

Translations

mountain climbing

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 登山 (zh) (dēngshān), 登高 (zh) (dēnggāo), 爬山 (zh) (páshān)

• Czech: alpinismus (cs) m
• Esperanto: alpismo
• Finnish: alpinismi (fi)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
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• German: Alpinismus (de) m
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: alpinismo (pt) m
• Romanian: alpinism (ro) n
• Serbo-Croatian: alpinizam m
• Turkish: dağcılık (tr)

Anagrams

• Palin-ism, Palinism