Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A transportation system or piece of recreation equipment consisting of a cable stretched between points of different elevations, a pulley, and a harness or bar for attaching a rider, who moves by gravity.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
pulley suspended on acable mounted on anincline , designed to enable a user to travel from one point to another by means ofgravity . - noun A trip on a zipline.
- verb To travel by zipline.
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Examples
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It gets off to a great start, with an unstable rock star about to mount a daring stunt on a zipline from a sky box in an auditorium to the stage below while fireworks go off around her and helicopters pretend to strafe the stage.
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A "zipline" adventure ride spanning the Colorado River is expected to be open for business by Memorial Day, and ground was recently broken for the long-planned No Name Grill.
Aspen Times - Top Stories John Colson Glenwood Springs correspondent Aspen 2010
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A "zipline" adventure ride spanning the Colorado River is expected to be open for business by Memorial Day, and ground was recently broken for the long-planned No Name Grill.
Aspen Times - Top Stories John Colson Glenwood Springs correspondent Aspen 2010
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A "zipline" adventure ride spanning the Colorado River is expected to be open for business by Memorial Day, and ground was recently broken for the long-planned No Name Grill.
Aspen Times - Top Stories John Colson Glenwood Springs correspondent Aspen 2010
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A "zipline" adventure ride spanning the Colorado River is expected to be open for business by Memorial Day, and ground was recently broken for the long-planned No Name Grill.
Aspen Times - Top Stories John Colson Glenwood Springs correspondent Aspen 2010
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A "zipline" adventure ride spanning the Colorado River is expected to be open for business by Memorial Day, and ground was recently broken for the long-planned No Name Grill.
Aspen Times - Top Stories John Colson Glenwood Springs correspondent Aspen 2010
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A "zipline" adventure ride spanning the Colorado River is expected to be open for business by Memorial Day, and ground was recently broken for the long-planned No Name Grill.
Aspen Times - Top Stories John Colson Glenwood Springs correspondent Aspen 2010
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A "zipline" adventure ride spanning the Colorado River is expected to be open for business by Memorial Day, and ground was recently broken for the long-planned No Name Grill.
Aspen Times - Top Stories John Colson Glenwood Springs correspondent Aspen 2010
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A "zipline" adventure ride spanning the Colorado River is expected to be open for business by Memorial Day, and ground was recently broken for the long-planned No Name Grill.
Aspen Times - Top Stories John Colson Glenwood Springs correspondent Aspen 2010
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A "zipline" adventure ride spanning the Colorado River is expected to be open for business by Memorial Day, and ground was recently broken for the long-planned No Name Grill.
Aspen Times - Top Stories John Colson Glenwood Springs correspondent Aspen 2010
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