mountaineering

English

Etymology

From mountaineer +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

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Noun

mountaineering (usually uncountable, plural mountaineerings)

2. The sport of climbing mountains.

   Synonyms: alpinism, mountain climbing

Derived terms

• coasteering
• skimo

Translations

sport

• Albanian: alpinizëm (sq) m
• Arabic: تَسَلُّق الْجِبَال m (tasalluq al-jibāl)
• Armenian: ալպինիզմ (hy) (alpinizm), լեռնագնացություն (hy) (leṙnagnacʻutʻyun)
• Azerbaijani: alpinizm (az)
• Belarusian: альпіні́зм m (alʹpinízm)
• Bulgarian: алпини́зъм (bg) m (alpinízǎm)
• Catalan: alpinisme m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 攀山 (paan¹ saan¹)

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

• Czech: horolezectví n, alpinismus (cs) m
• Esperanto: alpismo
• Estonian: mägironimine
• Finnish: vuorikiipeily (fi), alpinismi (fi)
• French: alpinisme (fr) m
• Galician: alpinismo m, montañismo m
• Georgian: ალპინიზმი (alṗinizmi)
• German: Bergsteigen (de) n, Alpinismus (de) m
• Greek: ορειβασία (el) f (oreivasía)
• Hindi: पर्वतारोहण m (parvatārohaṇ)
• Hungarian: hegymászás (hu)
• Icelandic: fjallganga (is) f, (go mountain climbing) ganga á fjöll
• Japanese: 登山 (ja) (とざん, tozan), 山登り (ja) (やまのぼり, yamanobori)
• Khmer: កីឡាឡើងភ្នំខ្ពស់ (kəylaa laəng pnum kpʊəh)
• Korean: 등산(登山) (ko) (deungsan), 등반(登攀) (deungban)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: شاخەوانی (şaxewanî)

• Macedonian: планина́рство n (planinárstvo), алпини́зам m (alpinízam)
• Marathi: गिर्यारोहण n (giryārohaṇ)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fjellklatring

  Nynorsk: fjellklatring f

• Persian: کوهنوردی (fa) (kuhnavardi)
• Polish: alpinizm (pl) m
• Portuguese: alpinismo (pt) m, montanhismo (pt) m
• Romanian: alpinism (ro) n
• Russian: альпини́зм (ru) m (alʹpinízm)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: алпинизам m

  Roman: alpinizam m

• Slovak: horolezectvo n, alpinizmus m
• Slovene: alpinizem m
• Spanish: alpinismo (es) m, montañismo m
• Swedish: bergsbestigning (sv) c, bergsklättring c
• Turkish: dağcılık (tr), alpinizm (tr)
• Ukrainian: альпіні́зм (uk) m (alʹpinízm)
• Vietnamese: leo núi

Further reading

• mountaineering on Wikipedia.Wikipedia