Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The sport of balancing, walking across, and doing stunts on a slackline.

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  • noun A sport resembling tightrope walking but with the rope or webbing only partially taut.
  • verb Present participle of slackline.

Etymologies

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slackline +‎ -ing.

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Examples

  • YouTube videos of myself slacklining (Note: slacklining is similar to tight-rope walking) and I thought it would be fun to have a site to keep in touch with my fans.

    Gayired.com - Gay OnLine Community for Entertainment and Daily News 2009

  • Highlining is essentially the same thing as slacklining, just at ridiculous heights.

    Breaking Down The Most Extreme Extreme Sport: Highlining | YepYep - Your Daily Waste Of Time 2008

  • Mr. Magness invented yoga slacklining three years ago with climbing partner Sam Salwei at a yoga conference in Estes Park, Colo.

    Into the Wild With Yoga Alexandra Alter 2008

  • Prana wants Mr. Magness to lead a nationwide yoga-slacklining tour.

    Into the Wild With Yoga Alexandra Alter 2008

  • "So they recruited Andy," who had been spotted while winning a slacklining competition in Boston in November.

    NYT > Home Page By JERÉ LONGMAN 2012

  • Exactly how much slack would Madonna allow in this slacklining routine?

    NYT > Home Page By JERÉ LONGMAN 2012

  • "The kiss was my idea," said Lewis, who lives in Moab, Utah, a slacklining haven.

    NYT > Home Page By JERÉ LONGMAN 2012

  • His curly-haired, toga-wearing character was supposed to be a combination of Caesar and Socrates, the father of the philosophy of slacklining known as Slackrates, Lewis said.

    NYT > Home Page By JERÉ LONGMAN 2012

  • This Super Bowl adventure began, as perhaps many Madonna adventures do, at the MTV Movie Awards, where, in a gifting suite last June, a slacklining kit was given to her publicist, according to Jaime Klinetob, the marketing manager for

    NYT > Home Page By JERÉ LONGMAN 2012

  • Yet, in about 30 acrobatic seconds, wearing a toga and bouncing on what amounted to a two-inch-wide trampoline, Lewis brought slacklining to a mainstream audience that dwarfed any previous exposure - 68,658 at Lucas Oil Stadium and tens of millions of television viewers.

    NYT > Home Page By JERÉ LONGMAN 2012

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