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- rappel: (mountaineering) a descent of a vertical cliff or wall made by using a doubled rope that is fixed to a higher point and wrapped around the body
- rappel: lower oneself with a rope coiled around the body from a mountainside; "The ascent was easy--roping down the mountain would be much more difficult and dangerous"; "You have to learn how to abseil when you want to do technical climbing"
- Abseiling (German: abseilen, "to rope down"), rappelling in American English, is the controlled descent down a rope; climbers use this technique when a cliff or slope is too steep and/or dangerous to descend without protection. ...
- Such a descent; To descend a steep or vertical drop using a rope with a mechanical friction device or (classic abseil) by wrapping the rope around the body; to rappel
- (Abseiling) The WAC Basic Rock offers a 25 feet, over the edge feel of descending the rock face with the help of a rope. It is a 'trust' exercise.
- (Abseiling) It is also called rappelling. It is a dangerous technique and several climbers have been injured during abseiling and every safety requirement must be taken.
- (Abseiling) also known as "roping down." A method of retreat, or for inspecting a climbing route.
- (pronounced AB-sail) To make a controlled descent on a fixed rope. The term is typically used in Europe and Australia. See rappel.
- v. UK English for rappel, from the German origin. See Rappel.
- The process by which a climber can descend a fixed rope. Also known as Rappel.
- German term (also employed by the British) for rappel; a method for descending a fixed rope by means of sliding and braking mechanisms known as belay devices.
- descending a rope using a friction device or traditional method (the later is not advised if you value your genitals)
- To descend a rope using a descender or maybe with just the rope round your body (a classic abseil). Potentially lethal; the cause of more deaths than actually climbing upwards. Often abbreviated to AB. (Americans call it "rapelling" and shorten it to "rap".) [Hil McMillan]
- To travel down a fixed rope under control. A synonym for rappel.
- Descending by sliding down a rope. Americans usually call this rappelling.
- British equivalent of rappel. Rappel is a French word meaning, "to retrieve", which you would do to your rope after you slide down it - if you want to use it again. Abseil is from the German and means, "to rope down."
- Same as Rappel, to decend using rope to control your decent.
- intr.v. To rappel.
- Synonym for Rappel. Commonly used in Europe.