abseil (redirected from abseils)

ab·seil  (äpzl, -sl, b-)

intr.v. ab·seiled, ab·seil·ing, ab·seils

To rappel.

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[German abseilen, to descend at the end of a rope : ab, down, off; see ablaut + Seil, rope (from Middle High German, from Old High German).]

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abseil [ˈæbsaɪl]

vb (intr)

1. (Individual Sports & Recreations / Mountaineering) Mountaineering to descend a steep slope or vertical drop by a rope secured from above and coiled around one's body or through karabiners attached to one's body in order to control the speed of descent

2. (Engineering / Aeronautics) to descend by rope from a helicopter

n

(Individual Sports & Recreations / Mountaineering) an instance or the technique of abseiling Also called rappel

[from German abseilen to descend by a rope, from ab- down + Seil rope]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	abseil - (mountaineering) a descent of a vertical cliff or wall made by using a doubled rope that is fixed to a higher point and wrapped around the body rappel mountain climbing, mountaineering - the activity of climbing a mountain descent - the act of changing your location in a downward direction
Verb	1.	abseil - lower oneself with a rope coiled around the body from a mountainside; "The ascent was easy--roping down the mountain would be much more difficult and dangerous"; "You have to learn how to abseil when you want to do technical climbing" rappel, rope down athletics, sport - an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition come down, descend, go down, fall - move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way; "The temperature is going down"; "The barometer is falling"; "The curtain fell on the diva"; "Her hand went up and then fell again"

Translations

abseil [ˈæbsaɪl] VI (Brit) (Sport) (also abseil down) → hacer rappel, bajar en la cuerda
he abseiled down the rock → hizo rappel roca abajo

abseil [ˈæbseɪl] (British) vi → descendre en rappel
to abseil down a cliff → descendre en rappel une falaise
to abseil down a building → descendre en rappel un immeuble

abseil (Brit)

vi (Mountaineering: also abseil down) → sich abseilen

n → Abstieg m → (am Seil)

abseil [ˈæbseɪl] vi (Mountaineering) → discendere a corda doppia