Rope Down (Verb)
Meaning
Descend by means of a rappel; "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".
Classification
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming.
Examples
- They carefully prepared their equipment to rope down the steep cliff side.
- The rescue team had to rope down to reach the stranded hikers on the mountain.
- Experienced mountaineers know that roping down is usually more challenging than the ascent.
- Canyoneers rope down waterfalls to navigate through rugged terrain.
- To avoid the treacherous terrain, they decided to rope down into the valley.