climbing terms

Language is funny thing, much of it is context dependant (this we know). Below is a list of some terminology from the climbing world.

• the line
• Types of climbing
  • Trad climbing
    • head point
  • Aid climbing
  • free climbing
  • Ice climbing
  • Sport climbing
    • red point
    • pink point
    • hang dog
  • Top Roping
  • on sight
  • send, to send, sending
  • Bouldering
    • high balling
    • low balling
  • Soloing
  • Deep water Soloing
• Terms for holding onto the rock and for holds on the rock and technique/jargon
  • The Sharp End
  • Leading
  • seconding
  • screamer
  • grounder
  • crimp, crimping
  • open crimp
  • closed crimp
  • crimper
  • slapper
  • sloper
  • jug
  • mantleshelfing
  • laybacking
  • dyno, dynoing
  • dead point
  • jam,jamming
  • offwidth
  • bridge, bridging
  • gaston
  • smear thanks to Cloony
• Equipment
  • climbing rope
  • boots/shoes
  • Spring Loaded Camming DeviceSLCD
    • Alien
    • Friend
    • Camalot
  • Pitons
  • Reality Pitons (RP's)
  • Realised Ultimate Reality Pitons (RURPS)
  • Bolts
  • Carabiners (crabs)
  • quickdraws
  • extenders
  • Nuts
  • Chocks
  • Peanuts
  • Hexes
  • Tricams
  • Copper Heads (Mashies)
  • Peg Hammer
  • crampon
  • ice axe
  • prussock
  • Prusik knot
  • triblock
  • ascender
  • jumar
  • ATC
  • fig 8
  • jaws
  • belay device
  • tubular
  • beta
• Training terms
  • Campusing, campus board
  • crux, the hardest part of the climb
  • dead hang
  • circut training
  • system training
  • blind climbing
  • stick climbing
  • the bouldering game
  • fingers of steel
  • pump
• grading systems bouldering grades will be discussed in each of these nodes as well.
  • climbing grades
  • sandbag
• Climbers you should know about, this is a personal and subjective assesment.
  • Lynn Hill
  • Ben Moon
  • Jerry Moffat
  • Johnny Dawes "the Dawes"
  • Paul Pritchard
  • Calvin Torrins
  • Joe Brown
  • Alistair Crowley
  • John Redhead "the mad monk"
  • Joe Simpson
  • Reinhold Messner
• any suggestions welcome, let me know if you have written something of relavance and i'll node it in this node, and then it'll be nodded noted !`

Thanks to moa for The sharp end, grounder and screamer