hand holds
Rock wall protrusions
Hand holds are grips or supports designed for grasping with the hands, typically found on climbing walls, boats, or transit vehicles: The rock face offered few natural hand holds.
In climbing, they're the projections or indentations that allow upward progress.
The phrase can also describe the act of clasping hands: The couple's hand holds grew tighter as the movie got scarier.
- gripSecure manual hold
- iron gripExtremely tight grasp
- death gripExtremely tight, unrelenting grasp
- graspSeize or understand
- clutchMechanism linking engine to gearbox
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