Synonyms of clambering

clambering

verb

present participle of clamber

as in climbing

to move (as up or over something) often with the help of the hands in holding or pulling

clambered over a wall and was never seen again

Synonyms & Similar Words

• climbing
• scrambling
• scrabbling
• swarming
• ascending
• scaling
• shimmying
• shinning
• shinnying
• surmounting
• breasting
• clawing
• struggling
• mounting
• sprawling
• skinning
• summiting
• free-climbing
• getting up

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of clambering

Video on state broadcaster CCTV showed the students, wearing bright orange life vests, clambering onto boats that took them away from the surreal scene of school buildings rising out of a lake of muddy water. — ABC News, 9 July 2026

Others took the more dangerous approach of clambering onto roofs to spend the night. — Dan Kelly july 8, Kansas City Star, 8 July 2026

Not robots clambering over rigs. — Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 13 June 2026

And all this after clambering up through the Championship play-offs last season. — The Athletic Uk Staff, New York Times, 22 May 2026

Dante and Virgil escape Hell by clambering down Satan's monstrous hide and through Earth's center of gravity. — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 11 May 2026

After clambering through the woods, Bowie, with help from her friend Laurie Brasil, reached Shy and was shocked to find Bow sitting right beside her. — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 10 Apr. 2026

In November, a wildlife photographer out on a whale watching trip in waters off the city captured dramatic video and photos of a pod of killer whales hunting a seal that survived only by clambering onto the stern of her boat. — CBS News, 6 Apr. 2026

The piece is a collection of disused shoemaker boxes, once used by cobblers to keep tools, pressed against each other and stacked up, clambering toward the ceiling. — Edna Bonhomme, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025