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    A rope is a group of yarns, plies, fibres, or strands that are twisted or braided together into a larger and stronger form. Ropes have tensile strength...
    37 KB (4,618 words) - 06:35, 19 May 2024
  • Hard Rope & Silken Twine is the twelfth and final album released by The Incredible String Band. It was released in 1974. It was fitting that their final...
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    Tug of war (redirect from Rope pulling)
    Tug of war (also known as tug o' war, tug war, rope war, rope pulling, or tugging war) is a sport that pits two teams against each other in a test of strength:...
    39 KB (4,023 words) - 16:11, 5 August 2024
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    The rope dart or rope javelin (simplified Chinese: 绳镖; traditional Chinese: 繩鏢; pinyin: shéng biāo, Japanese: 縄鏢 or 縄標: Jōhyō), is one of the flexible...
    8 KB (1,016 words) - 03:40, 31 May 2024
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    A skipping rope or jump rope is a tool used in the sport of skipping/jump rope where one or more participants jump over a rope swung so that it passes...
    21 KB (2,280 words) - 10:28, 4 July 2024
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    Team roping also known as heading and heeling is a rodeo event that features a steer (typically a Corriente) and two mounted riders. The first roper is...
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  • The rope was an instrument of torture used by the Huguenots in their persecution of Catholics, and involved sawing the human body with a hard-fibered...
    737 bytes (66 words) - 01:02, 9 February 2023
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    Top rope climbing (or top roping) is a form of rock climbing where the climber is securely attached to a climbing rope that runs through a fixed anchor...
    14 KB (1,718 words) - 00:56, 27 July 2024
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    A dynamic rope is a specially constructed, somewhat elastic rope used primarily in rock climbing, ice climbing, and mountaineering. This elasticity, or...
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    (either by headpointing or top roping) or after having failed the first attempt (i.e. falling or resting on the rope for artificial aid). Climbers will...
    16 KB (1,793 words) - 15:20, 9 July 2024
  • The Velvet Rope is the sixth studio album by American singer Janet Jackson. It was released on October 7, 1997, through Virgin Records. Prior to its release...
    179 KB (14,113 words) - 05:17, 28 July 2024
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    A hard disk drive (HDD), hard disk, hard drive, or fixed disk is an electro-mechanical data storage device that stores and retrieves digital data using...
    139 KB (14,068 words) - 17:49, 8 August 2024
  • Rope of Sand is a 1949 American adventure-suspense film noir directed by William Dieterle, produced by Hal Wallis, and starring Burt Lancaster and three...
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    Abseiling (redirect from Rope down)
    Abseiling (/ˈæbseɪl/ AB-sayl or /ˈɑːpzaɪl/ AHP-zyle; from German abseilen 'to rope down'), also known as rappelling (/ˈræpɛl/ RAP-pell or /rəˈpɛl/ rə-PELL;...
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    walking, also called funambulism, is the skill of walking along a thin wire or rope. It has a long tradition in various countries and is commonly associated...
    16 KB (1,923 words) - 05:46, 21 July 2024
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    the rope travels through it quickly in a specific direction. See auto belay. abseiling A technique by which a climber descends via a fixed rope that...
    122 KB (11,885 words) - 17:50, 27 July 2024
  • Earthspan (1972) No Ruinous Feud (1973) Hard Rope & Silken Twine (1974)...
    3 KB (94 words) - 09:21, 18 April 2022
  • The Ropers is an American sitcom television series that aired on ABC from March 13, 1979, to May 15, 1980. It is a spin-off of Three's Company and loosely...
    32 KB (2,057 words) - 14:25, 3 July 2024
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    You Move (1970) The Incredible String Band: The 5000 Spirits (1967); Hard Rope & Silken Twine (1973) Bert Jansch: Birthday Blues (1969); Moonshine (1972);...
    15 KB (1,276 words) - 12:53, 4 August 2024
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    The Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge (locally pronounced carrick-a-reed) is a rope bridge near Ballintoy in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. The bridge links...
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