Timeline for Is it correct to use "climb down the stairs" in a sentence? [closed]
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| Feb 13, 2017 at 3:30 | comment | added | Hellion | @techydesigner I don't see that as a duplicate. As WS2 said, it's related, but that's about all. | |
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| Nov 20, 2016 at 15:51 | comment | added | Lawrence | Although climb is often associated with ascent, this Ngram provides examples of the phrase "climb down the stairs" in print - though mainly after 1940. | |
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| Oct 21, 2016 at 10:04 | answer | added | Richard Baker | timeline score: 3 | |
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| Sep 20, 2016 at 19:56 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | @Peter Point Imagine that a bomb (or 100 years of decay) had taken out five stairs in the middle of the flight. | |
| Sep 20, 2016 at 14:35 | comment | added | WS2 | There is a recent related post Do you walk up or climb stairs?, which crosses over with some of the discussion here. | |
| Sep 20, 2016 at 14:02 | answer | added | FumbleFingers | timeline score: 4 | |
| Sep 20, 2016 at 13:23 | comment | added | Jeffrey Kemp | "climbing" vs "walking" describes one's mode of ambulation - so it depends on the state or steepness of the stairs as to whether one would choose to "climb" or "walk" down them - and this may differ from person to person - I might walk down some stairs that my child would climb down. | |
| Sep 20, 2016 at 12:50 | comment | added | Peter Point | @EdwinAshworth I can't understand the implication that the stairs are "damaged". How so? | |
| Sep 20, 2016 at 12:41 | comment | added | Peter Point | In translation from BE to AE, that's the elevator for "lift" and first floor for "ground floor". | |
| Sep 20, 2016 at 12:39 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | I'll venture to say that in the UK, 'climb down' (and 'climb up') necessitates a degree of 'climbing-as-opposed-to-not-using-hands' (eg 'He climbed down the cliff'), whereas a car may climb / ascend a hill. So 'climb down the stairs' would imply they're damaged. | |
| Sep 20, 2016 at 12:13 | answer | added | Jeffrey Kemp | timeline score: -1 | |
| Sep 20, 2016 at 12:13 | comment | added | Hot Licks | "Climb down" is reasonably idiomatic (in the US) when the stairs are (relatively) steep. Also, one would "climb down" a tree or a mountain. | |
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