alpinism

English

Etymology

alpine +‎ -ism

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈælpɪnɪzəm/

Noun

alpinism (usually uncountable, plural alpinisms)

(sometimes capitalized) Mountain climbing.
- 1912, "New Maps," Bulletin of the American Geographical Society, vol. 44, no. 7, p. 558,
  . . . our rapidly increasing knowledge of the Rocky Mountains of Canada for which geography is so greatly indebted to alpinism.

Synonyms

mountaineering

Related terms

alpinist

Translations

mountain climbing

Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Chinese:
Mandarin: 登山 (zh) (dēngshān), 登高 (zh) (dēnggāo), 爬山 (zh) (páshān)
Czech: alpinismus (cs) m
Esperanto: alpismo
Finnish: alpinismi (fi)
Georgian: please add this translation if you can

German: Alpinismus (de) m
Japanese: please add this translation if you can
Korean: please add this translation if you can
Portuguese: alpinismo (pt) m
Romanian: alpinism (ro) n
Serbo-Croatian: alpinizam m
Turkish: dağcılık (tr)

Anagrams

Palin-ism, Palinism

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