²swarm

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of SWARM

to move (as up or over something) often with the help of the hands in holding or pulling <one of the physical challenges had competitors swarming over a pile of logs>

Synonyms clamber, scrabble, scramble, swarm

Related Words shimmy, shin, shinny, skin; ascend, breast [chiefly British], free-climb, get up, mount, scale, summit, surmount; claw, sprawl, struggle

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