Verb
1. go upward with gradual or continuous progress;
"Did you ever climb up the hill behind your house?"2. move with difficulty, by grasping
3. go up or advance;
"Sales were climbing after prices were lowered"4. slope upward;
"The path climbed all the way to the top of the hill"5. improve one's social status;
"This young man knows how to climb the social ladder"6. increase in value or to a higher point;
"prices climbed steeply""the value of our house rose sharply last year"