Climbing gear
The crossword clue "Climbing gear" is answered by ROPE, a 4-letter entry. Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2020; first recorded in 2005. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
ROPE
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ROPE answer page.
Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2020; first recorded in 2005. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
- ALPENSTOCKS (1 uses in xd)
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Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
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