BUILDERING Definition & Meaning

buildering

[ bil-der-ing ]

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noun

the practice of climbing tall urban buildings, for sport or publicity.

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Origin of buildering¹

1975–80; Americanism modeled on bouldering, the sport of climbing large rocks or boulders

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These daring acts, however, do not come close to escalada, or “buildering”, whereby pixadores scale the outside of a building by holding on to its external surge arrester cable.

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We come to understand "buildering," the act of climbing the outside of landmark buildings to reach the "wee turrets in the corners."

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