Wordnet 3.0
VERB (1)
1.
lower oneself with a rope coiled around the body from a mountainside;
- Example: "The ascent was easy--roping down the mountain would be much more difficult and dangerous"- Example: "You have to learn how to abseil when you want to do technical climbing"[syn: rappel, abseil, rope down]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
rope down
v 1: 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" [syn: rappel, abseil, rope down]