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top-roping

top-roping is the present participle and gerund of top-rope.

Meaning of top-rope

Verb

top-rope (third-person singular simple present top-ropes, present participle top-roping, simple past and past participle top-roped)

  1. To belay from a fixed anchor point above the climber.

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Questions about top-roping

What is top-roping the present participle and gerund of?
Top-roping is the present participle and gerund of top-rope.

Words near top-roping in the dictionary

  1. top-rope
  2. top-roped
  3. top-roper
  4. top-ropers
  5. top-ropes
  6. top-roping
  7. top-rung
  8. top-sawyer
  9. top-secret
  10. top-selling
  11. top-shaped

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Adapted from Wiktionary: top-roping (page history and authors); top-rope (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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