0 a type of motorsport in which drivers compete to see who is the fastest on a route which goes up a hill:
Cars from 1895 to the present day do a bit of hill climbing in front of 150,000 spectators.
This season there's a flurry of new, front-running cars using engines never seen in hillclimbing before.
Altogether, he won nearly 300 cycle racing prizes for road, track and hill climbing.
What followed were many happy years with her beloved husband walking and hill climbing.
Even though it was cool with a nice breeze, the hill climbing took its toll on us.
1 a mathematical method used for solving difficult problems that have several possible solutions by repeatedly improving previous solutions:
One successful approach makes use of a hill climbing approach by swapping those two entries that make the strongest progress towards minimising the penalty.
Optimization approaches include hill climbing, stochastic search, directed stochastic search, and hybrid methods.