Etymology

mountaineering

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Today it means: The sport of climbing mountains. Full definition →

English mountaineer
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  1. Englishmountain
  2. Englishmountaineer
  3. English todaymountaineering

From mountaineer + -ing.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.