Other forms: climbers
A climber is somebody who climbs rock or mountains. An experienced climber, a lone climber, climbers on the face.
It covers everything from an indoor wall to high altitude, and the disciplines barely overlap. In gardening, a climber is a plant that climbs — clematis, honeysuckle, ivy — and it needs support or it will find its own. A social climber is somebody working their way up in society, which is an old insult. Note climb, climbing; and that the b in climb is silent and unhistorical.
1nounclimberSomebody who climbs rock or mountains.
“The climbers roped themselves together before crossing the glacier.”
2nounplantA plant that climbs.
“Ivy and other climbers covered the walls of the old house.”
climber is a person or plant that climbs.
Middle English clymbere is climb plus -er, from Old English climban. The b was pronounced once and is now silent, as in lamb and thumb.
Middle English
clymbere
English, today
climber
Built from
From Middle English clymbere, clymber (“one who climbs, climber”), from climben (“to climb; to ascend, fly upward, rise; to slope upwards; to approach God in prayer; to advance; to overcome, triumph; to aspire; to be presumptuous”) + -er, -ere. The English word is analysable as climb + -er.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA