Definitions
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- adjective not attached to a rope
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
unrope .
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Examples
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Married or not, they climb mountains unroped, jump out of planes into Scottish lochs yes, really.
Deconstructing the Unreconstructed Male Tina Gaudoin 2011
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That, Hemingway wrote in "A Moveable Feast," "is about as low as a writer can get and much more dangerous for him as a writer than glacier skiing unroped before the full winter snowfall has set over the crevices."
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Bogdan parked his suitcases? at in the windowless corner; took a sheet and a blanket out of the unroped one and spread them under the murky window — unequipped with mattress or duvet, this was where he would sleep.
'Love And Obstacles' 2009
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Rather, climbers moved up and down the mountain unroped, or traveled in self-sufficient teams, carrying a small amount of cord between them.
Freddie Wilkinson: K2: What The Mainstream Media Isn't Reporting 2008
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Historical context supports the assumption that it is feasible for an experienced climber to negotiate the Bottleneck unroped.
Freddie Wilkinson: K2: What The Mainstream Media Isn't Reporting 2008
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The group of summiters faced a life or death situation: either down climb the Bottleneck unroped, or wait in hope that other climbers from below would ascend with more rope to re-equip the climb.
Freddie Wilkinson: Avalanche Triggers Survival Situation on K2 2008
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They were the kind that made Thomas Hudson feel "the way downhill glacier skiing feels running through powder snow and, after the sixth and eighth … like downhill glacier skiing when you are running unroped."
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They were the kind that made Thomas Hudson feel "the way downhill glacier skiing feels running through powder snow and, after the sixth and eighth … like downhill glacier skiing when you are running unroped."
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I have never been downhill glacier skiing, roped or unroped.
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I have never been downhill glacier skiing, roped or unroped.
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