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rooftopping

rooftopping noun: a form of urban exploration by accessing a rooftop to acquire skyline photography, often done illegally with the risk of personal injury.

Noun

rooftopping (uncountable)

  1. A form of urban exploration by accessing a rooftop to acquire skyline photography, often done illegally with the risk of personal injury.
    • In recent years rooftopping has spiked in popularity, attracting a more diverse set of practitioners.2015 February 17, Bradley L Garrett, “Meet the rooftoppers: the urban outlaws who risk everything to summit our cities”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 22 Feb 2020

Origin of rooftopping

From rooftop + -ing.

Questions about rooftopping

What does rooftopping mean?
Rooftopping means a form of urban exploration by accessing a rooftop to acquire skyline photography, often done illegally with the risk of personal injury.
What part of speech is rooftopping?
Rooftopping is a noun.

Words near rooftopping in the dictionary

  1. rooftiles
  2. rooftop
  3. Rooftop of the World
  4. rooftopper
  5. rooftoppers
  6. rooftopping
  7. rooftops
  8. rooftree
  9. rooftrees
  10. roofward
  11. roofwise

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