Synonyms of shinny

shinny

verb

as in to skin

Related Words

• skin
• shin
• shimmy
• swarm
• scramble
• clamber
• summit
• ascend
• climb
• breast
• scale
• scrabble
• free-climb
• mount
• claw
• get up
• struggle
• surmount
• sprawl

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of shinny

From here Cathedral Rock Trail steepens dramatically, shinnying up rock faces, angling from ledge to ledge. — Roger Naylor, AZCentral.com, 8 Nov. 2025

The slippery custom began a half-century ago merely as a means to dissuade drunken daredevils from attempting to shinny up the poles in order to mingle with paying guests. — Doug MacCash | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 25 Jan. 2021

No hunter, regardless of how hard-core, wants to strap a 40-pound stand to his back, trek two miles back into the wilderness, then try to shinny up a tree with it. — The Editors, Field & Stream, 22 Aug. 2019

Two hours south of Kazinga Channel is the Ishasha Sector of the park, home to the famous tree-climbing lions that shinny up ficus trees and nap during the hot afternoon hours. — Tom Hanscom, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2019

There are now escape chutes (basically, giant collapsible fabric tubes for shinnying down) and small parachutes. — Alex Williams, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2017