climb vs swoop

climb

verb
  • to jump high 

  • To mount; to move upwards on. 

  • To move to a higher position on the social ladder. 

  • Of plants, to grow upwards by clinging to something. 

  • To move (especially up and down something) by gripping with the hands and using the feet. 

  • to practise the sport of climbing 

  • To scale; to get to the top of something. 

  • To ascend; rise; to go up. 

noun
  • The act of getting to somewhere more elevated. 

  • An upwards struggle 

  • An act of climbing. 

swoop

verb
  • To fly or glide downwards suddenly; to plunge (in the air) or nosedive. 

  • To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing. 

  • To pass with pomp; to sweep. 

  • To move swiftly, as if with a sweeping movement, especially to attack something. 

  • To seize; to catch up; to take with a sweep. 

  • To search the ground for discarded cigarette butts that can be made into new cigarettes. 

noun
  • An instance, or the act of suddenly plunging downward. 

  • A quick passage from one note to the next. 

  • A sudden act of seizing. 

How often have the words climb and swoop occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )