About r/climbing
In its own words:
The home of Climbing on reddit. And yes we are scared of falling.
Community guide
r/climbing (#649, about 1.6 million subscribers) is oriented around: The home of Climbing on reddit. And yes we are scared of falling. Recent activity samples show 2.8 posts/day in recent samples (~47% video, ~20% link, ~13% image). Public rules we collected include: No questions outside of the weekly question thread; Circlejerking; Not climbing related; low effort/low quality; No indoor climbing or bouldering except covering competitions. Directory metadata files it under “Sports”.
What belongs here
Stay inside the room’s stated scope rather than adjacent off-topic dumps. Low-effort memes/empty shitposts are often removed—add real context.
How it differs from lookalikes
Prefer this room when your post matches its description and rule list—not merely a larger sibling community.
Practical pointers
Read the live sidebar/rules before posting; collected snapshots can lag.
SubMouse Editorial
The community was created on Jul 17, 2008, which makes it 18 years old. Since Oct 26, 2026, it has gained 336 subscribers (+0.02%). Among the 7 communities on our climbing list it is the largest. It sits just behind r/snowboarding (#648) and ahead of r/Warhammer40k (#650) in our ranking.
What sets r/climbing apart
Relative to its huge audience, posting is calm — around 1.7 new posts a day per million members, which puts it in the quietest fifth of the Top 100. A good post has less competition here.
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, r/climbing went up from 1,638,244 to 1,640,794 subscribers (+2.6K, +0.16%). That is about 58 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (9 so far), so it gets longer every week.
Activity and best time to post
r/climbing gets about 2.8 new posts a day. The public archive holds 132,147 posts and 2,004,737 comments in total, about 15.2 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Tuesday (5 posts) and the quietest was Thursday (0).
Rules of r/climbing
The moderators of r/climbing list 5 rules. In short:
- No questions outside of the weekly question thread
- Circlejerking
- Not climbing related
- low effort/low quality
- No indoor climbing or bouldering except covering competitions
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/climbing and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.
Frequently asked questions
How many members does r/climbing have?
r/climbing has 1,640,794 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #649 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 2,550 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026.
How old is r/climbing?
r/climbing was created on Jul 17, 2008, so it has been around for 18 years. The oldest post in the public archive is from May 9, 2009.
How active is r/climbing?
Moderately: r/climbing gets about 2.8 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 132,147 posts and 2,004,737 comments.
When is r/climbing most active?
Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Tuesday and the quietest Thursday. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What is r/climbing about?
The community describes itself as: “The home of Climbing on reddit. And yes we are scared of falling.” Recent post titles often mention repeats, rock and weekly.
Is r/climbing safe for work?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/climbing as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
How do I post on r/climbing?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/climbing accepts link and media posts (no plain text posts), with images, videos and galleries enabled. It has 5 posted rules, starting with: “No questions outside of the weekly question thread”; “Circlejerking”; “Not climbing related”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
Which communities are like r/climbing?
Communities with similar topics include r/ChildrenFallingOver (2.9M), r/starterpacks (6.5M), r/homeautomation (4.6M), r/Jazz (1.3M) and r/javascript (2.5M).
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 2, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/climbing.