abseil

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I - noun

(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
• Syn:
rappel
• Topics:
mountain climbing, mountaineering
• Hypernyms:
descent

II - verb

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, rope down
• Topics:
sport, athletics
• Hypernyms:
descend, fall, go down, come down
• Entailment:
mountaineer
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s