spiderman

Wall-crawling crime-fighter

A spiderman is a worker who builds or repairs high steel structures—bridges, skyscrapers, transmission towers.

The term reflects the workers' spider-like movement across webs of girders and cables: The spidermen walked the beams thirty stories up without harnesses.

The job requires exceptional balance and tolerance for heights. (Capitalized Spider-Man is the Marvel Comics superhero.)

superhero

marvel

Astonishing thing or feeling

webs · swing · avenger · vigilante · comic · powers · crime-fighter · responsibility · venom

Opposites
heroic alignment

spidermanGreen Goblin

supervillain · Doctor Octopus · Venom · villain · Mysterio

power source/creature basis

spidermanAquaman

Submarine comic king

Ant-Man · Hawkman · Black Panther · Falcon · Wolverine

superhero archetype

spidermanBatman

Gotham's masked vigilante

Iron Man · Punisher · War Machine · Green Arrow · Hawkeye

Phrases
Family

spider, spiders, spiderweb, webslinger

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Known to kids · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G