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]