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someone who spends all leisure time playing sports or working out in a gymnasium or health spa
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Formerly a derisive term applied to those that climb predominantly indoors and train intensively. Now the term has mellowed, and is even embraced by many self-effacing indoor climbers, especially since (a) training has made them better climbers and (b) running routes inside on a rainy afternoon beats waiting out a cold bivy in the sleet any day.
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One of many usually colorful terms for persons who believe they know climbing because they climb in gyms but neither know nor trust anchors and protection outside of a gri-gri.
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