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  • adjective not attached to a rope
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of unrope.

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Examples

  • Married or not, they climb mountains unroped, jump out of planes into Scottish lochs yes, really.

    Deconstructing the Unreconstructed Male Tina Gaudoin 2011

  • 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."

    He Was a Cocktail Artist 2009

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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."

    The Old Man and the Daiquiri 2005

  • 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."

    The Old Man and the Daiquiri 2005

  • I have never been downhill glacier skiing, roped or unroped.

    The Old Man and the Daiquiri 2005

  • I have never been downhill glacier skiing, roped or unroped.

    The Old Man and the Daiquiri 2005

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