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Verb
/rəˈpel/,
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rappels, 3rd person singular present; rappelled, past participle; rappelling, present participle; rappelled, past tense;
  1. Descend a rock face or other near-vertical surface by using a doubled rope coiled around the body and fixed at a higher point
    • - they had to rappel down a long steep ice face
Noun
  1. A descent made by rappeling
    • - they were careful in setting up the rappel
  1. (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
  2. 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"
  3. 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. ...
  4. Descending by means of a rope, abseiling; to call back a hawk; to abseil
  5. (Rappelling) Technique of landing specifically trained firefighters from hovering helicopters; involves sliding down ropes with the aid of friction-producing devices.
  6. (Rappelling) This is a form of descending from a climb and considered very dangerous.
  7. (rappelling) (n): Down-roping from a perfectly serviceable lowering anchor, with long-lasting stainless-steel rings, after an absurd, dangerous volley of yelling and miscommunication between climber and belayer.
  8. To descend a fixed rope by means of mechanical braking devices.
  9. To descend a cliff or other height by lowering oneself on a fixed rope, with feet against the wall. Friction is placed on the rope, usually with a belay device, to keep the descent slow and controlled. See free rappel.
  10. The process by which a climber may descend on a fixed rope using a friction device. Also known as Abseil or roping down..
  11. To descend a rope at a safe controlled speed.
  12. To intentionally descend a rope by sliding down an anchored line. Often just called rapping by many or abseiling by the British.
  13. To descend a fixed rope, usually by means of a braking device. Statistically the most dangerous climbing activity probably because too many climbers rappel without a good Plan B, that is, without a belay. For the last person down a pitch there is no way to belay a rappel. ...
  14. Using a rope to descend from a climb. Modern rappels are generally done with a rappel device, which creates friction on the rope to help control the descent. Also called abseiling.
  15. n/vb the act of self belaying down the length of a rope to descend.
  16. A pit that requires a rope and technical descending equipment to go down. Also the act of descending a pit on rope.
  17. Descent technique where a climber uses friction to slide down a rope. Synonymous with “abseil.”
  18. To self-lower from the top of a climb using a rope.
  19. Any of various methods of descending a rope using controlled friction
  20. descend from helicopter or precipitous slope by rope
  21. to come down a cliff by sliding down a rope
  22. Descending steep terrain (or cliffs) using a rope and belay device.