How to Use hill climb in a Sentence

hill climb

noun

• Does a hill climb count if a car doesn’t even make it off the base of the hill?
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 12 July 2024
• In a hill climb, the competitors race one at a time against the clock.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 29 June 2018
• Above the house, a steep hill climbs to the rim of the valley, covered in tall grasses and oaks.
  — Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 11 June 2019
• Here’s how hill climbs and sprints compare to squats, deadlifts, and other leg-day staples.
  — Jennifer Heimlich, SELF, 1 Oct. 2024
• This is the only hill climb of the trip and has a sweet Pacific backdrop.
  — Jordan Rane, Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2020
• And yes, that means actual strength training, not penciling in a day of hill climbs.
  — Danielle Zickl, SELF, 11 June 2025
• Drivers battle the open desert full of whoops, soft sand, and steep hill climbs that challenge even the quickest of cars.
  — Emme Hall, The Verge, 24 Feb. 2023
• Our customers will be people who have been competing at a certain hill climb and want to win it and take the record.
  — James Morris, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024
• The inverter was struggling, and the TesTen couldn’t make it up the first sandy hill climb.
  — Emme Hall, The Verge, 24 Feb. 2023
• Built Wild's climax was a 38-degree hill climb and descent over a 22-foot-high steel hillock.
  — Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press, 24 Sep. 2021
• The record was set on Saturday during the 104th running of the famous hill climb.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 23 June 2026
• Along with a concours of vehicles, the Festival of Speed is most known for their legendary hill climb event.
  — Mara Balagtas, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 July 2018
• Take on your local running community by completing the most reps of your local hill climb over 30 days.
  — Outside Online, 22 July 2024
• Fifty-two drivers and their crew had spent close to a month preparing for the annual time-attack hill climb near Colorado Springs.
  — Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 28 June 2021
• This model has competed in a string of racing disciplines, including hill climbs, track races and long-distance road rallies.
  — Fox News, 1 June 2018
• Roll is merely in his sixties, and declares his youth by pre-riding many of the hill climbs on the morning of the stage, the better to describe the pain the racers are about to endure.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 20 July 2023
• Depending on the workout, the treadmill portion might include a combination of sprints, hill climbs, and steady-state endurance running.
  — Alexa Tucker, SELF, 4 Dec. 2019
• Instea, the team has written software for the hill climb that relies on lidar laser sensors for real-time environment perception.
  — Jack Stewart, WIRED, 7 July 2018
• That’s double and triple the original price of $1,495, which was in itself a steep hill climb for a Wi-Fi speaker.
  — Vlad Savov, The Verge, 3 July 2018
• The hill climb is where hundreds of new and vintage cars, race cars, and motorcycles take to an uphill road course to compete for the fastest time throughout the duration of the weekend.
  — Mara Balagtas, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 July 2018
• The concept also has a new power-regen system that boosts efficiency, as well as a new hill climb mode that makes conquering rough terrain even easier.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 30 Mar. 2023
• The Touring also gets X-Mode system, designed to improve the car’s hill climbing and hill-descent performance.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2018
• Of course, the world's best skiers and snowboarders will be there, but there are also events for extreme snowmobiling, snow biking, and even a Harley-Davidson snow hill climb.
  — Kat Bein, Billboard, 22 Jan. 2018
• Fortunately, day one started off relatively easy with one of the shortest mileages of the trip (about 29) and hill climbs that were challenging but not overwhelming.
  — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 11 July 2019
• Nearly every hub motor has a single gear ratio; fine for the flats, not so good for hill climbs, where the motor can't match a mid-drive unit for a robust shove against gravity, and may even overheat on long ascents.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 25 Nov. 2021
• The wild-looking 4×4 actually ran the hill climb at the annual event and could be the Blue Oval’s entrant in next year’s Dakar Rally.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 15 July 2024
• Cheered on by thick roadside crowds, Alaphilippe delivered the decisive blow on the Cote de Mutigny, the steepest of four notable hill climbs heading toward Epernay.
  — John Leicester, courant.com, 8 July 2019
• The lightweight performance version of the German marque’s iconic sports car became the first street-legal vehicle to complete the famous hill climb in less than 10 minutes late last month.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 13 Oct. 2022
• The handovers will see the first US owner take delivery of their new car and include an opportunity for the three new recipients to ride up the iconic Goodwood hill climb.
  — Trinity Francis, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
• Consequently, the hill climb has become a venue where electric power can take on the internal combustion engine without artificial handicapping.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 19 Mar. 2018