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slacklining

slacklining noun: a sport resembling tightrope walking but with the rope or webbing only partially taut. Also the present participle and gerund of slackline.

slacklining: a sport resembling tightrope walking but with the rope or webbing only partially taut
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Noun

slacklining (uncountable)

  1. A sport resembling tightrope walking but with the rope or webbing only partially taut.
    • Highlining was a high-wire version of slacklining, an extreme cousin of tightrope walking in which no pole was used for balance and the rope was elastic, allowing for various tricks involving walking, sitting, lying down, flipping, even spinning hula hoops.2008 March 14, Jeré Longman, “900 Feet Up With Nowhere to Go but Down”, in New York Times

Also used as

slacklining is also the present participle and gerund of slackline.

Origin of slacklining

From slackline + -ing.

Words formed from slacklining

Questions about slacklining

What does slacklining mean?
Slacklining means a sport resembling tightrope walking but with the rope or webbing only partially taut.
What part of speech is slacklining?
Slacklining is a noun.

Words near slacklining in the dictionary

  1. slackline
  2. slacklined
  3. slackliner
  4. slackliners
  5. slacklines
  6. slacklining
  7. slackly
  8. slackness
  9. slacknesses
  10. slackpack
  11. slackpacked

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