Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Sports Basic or intermediate climbing carried out on relatively small rocks that can be traversed without great risk of bodily harm in case of a fall.
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Examples
“I still like top rope better than bouldering; bouldering is all about the upper body strength and the explosive power, and I am (a) a girl and (b) stocky and (c) fat and (d) old, things which collectively make it all the more difficult (Guys like bouldering.”
and those of us with ravaged faces, lacking in the social graces--
“Instead I see the province promoting "bouldering" — think rock-climbing, but smaller — and such oddball fare as the Festival of Extraordinary Teapots.”
“This is how we were lighting some "bouldering" photos (more on that in a later post) and I went in close for a portrait-scale shot.”
“In 2009, I helped start the Teton Boulder Project, a grassroots effort to build a bouldering park in downtown Jackson.”
The Huffington Post: Christian Beckwith: Adventropy: Adventure Philanthropy at Work
“In fact, last night with elbie_at_trig and thingo I made a Bold Assertion: a year from now, I'll be in good enough shape to go climbing at the campus bouldering wall.”
“Sadly, I do not have a lot of courage for bouldering, but I am doing better than I was, and it was really, really good to get out and climb.”
“I showed up a little early and did some casual bouldering and traversing, then re-sent a tricky, physically challending 5.7 thaqt pretty much pumped my forearms all by itself.”
when you think of fallen skies remember there are a million ways to die
“I still kind of suck at bouldering (I'm such a coward at the top of a problem, when I'm tired and it's fifteen feet to the ground) but I did manage five (I think?)”
“This morning, I went climbing with a friend of the mighty Kij's (just bouldering, as we were pressed for time) at Seattle's Stone Gardens climbing gym.”
Lists
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Climbing lingo
Lingo that immediately classifies you as a climbing insider
crimp, gaston, beta, sherpa, Bonnington, Chouinard, The Gunks, hexentrics, The Dru, Black Ice Culoir, Fitzroy, Black Diamond Equ... and 38 more...
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Show me whatcha workin' with!
Exercise.
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Tweets
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I. Lily C. "The future of bouldering will decipher its grade but I can assure you that it will never be seen as a pile or climb not worth trying." - Paul Robinson discusses the grading of Lucid Dreaming as 8C+ on his blog Dec 15, 2010