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top rope

top rope is the alternative form 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.

See all 3 meanings of top-rope

Forms of top rope

third-person singular presenttop ropes
present participletop roping
past participletop roped
pasttop roped

Questions about top rope

What is top rope the alternative form of?
Top rope is the alternative form of top-rope.

Words near top rope in the dictionary

  1. top priority
  2. top quark
  3. top quarks
  4. top rake
  5. top rakes
  6. top rope
  7. top roped
  8. top ropes
  9. top roping
  10. top round
  11. top rounds

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Adapted from Wiktionary: top rope (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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