zipline
Speech parts
1. zipline - Noun
2. zipline - Verb
Meaning
A trip on a zipline.
A pulley suspended on a cable mounted on an incline, designed to enable a user to travel from one point to another by means of gravity.
Synonyms: aerial ropeslide, aerial runway, flying fox, Tyrolean runway, zip-wire
Coordinate term: Tyrolean traverse
zipline (third-person singular simple present ziplines, present participle ziplining, simple past and past participle ziplined)
To travel by zipline.
Synonyms
Examples
All summer long the Montana Snowbowl operates zipline tours that criss-cross the resort.
A small campground, a zipline, and a general store — that, as of less than a year ago, houses a tiny gambling operation with 75 slot machines — make up its entire recreational tourism operation.
Drop by a National Geographicsupported reforestation project, visit a sea turtle conservancy program, opt to zipline above the lush canopy, and soak in volcanic hot springs.
But things changed when they saw that I shared the same trepidation while climbing a 50-foot tree and flying through the air on a zipline; when I agreed to make a fool of myself in a game of Truth Or Dare; when I played surrogate parent to the homesick.
In addition to margaritas, the waterfront will include Paradise Beach, cabanas, a five-story video screen and a zipline that soars high above it all.
A seven-year-old girl was hurt after she fell from a zipline at an adventure park in Ahwatukee.