trepar
/tɾeˈpaɾ/ · B2 · verb
to climb, to climb up, to scale
🧗🧱 trepar = TREpromptly PAR the wall: sounds like 'tray-PAR', scaling up
Say it like 'tray-PAR': think of a tray-carrying waiter who must scramble up a wall using hands and feet. The tray-PAR sound ties to climbing hands-and-feet over something vertical. Related to Spanish 'trepador', a climbing plant or bird.