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zip line

zip line is the alternative form of zipline.

Meaning of zipline

Noun

zipline (plural ziplines)

  1. A pulley suspended on a cable mounted on an incline, designed to enable a user to travel from one point to another by means of gravity.
    • Outside the county towns of Lushui, Fugong, and Gongshan, few bridges span the Nu River Gorge, and most villagers cross the river by zipline cables or suspended footbridges to transport their crops or livestock to market. It is not uncommon to see sheep or cattle nervously thrashing about as they...2014, Bryan Tilt, Dams and Development in China: The Moral Economy of Water and Power, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 92
  2. A trip on a zipline.

See all 3 meanings of zipline

Forms of zip line

pluralzip lines

Questions about zip line

What is zip line the alternative form of?
Zip line is the alternative form of zipline.

Words near zip line in the dictionary

  1. zip file
  2. zip files
  3. zip gun
  4. zip guns
  5. zip it
  6. zip line
  7. zip liner
  8. zip liners
  9. zip lines
  10. zip of death
  11. zip of deaths

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Adapted from Wiktionary: zip line (page history and authors); zipline (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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