climb, clime, cline, clone, clonk, cloak, cloat, float
Yet again, the shortest path just happens to go through another skill name
I have two dictionaries near at hand, and neither accepts
clonk or
cloat. Yet
clonk (to strike aggressively, especially on the head) is part of my everyday vocabulary.
Cloat, I admit, I googled to see whether it was a word, after failing to complete the chain any other way.