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zipline

/ˈzɪpˌlaɪn/

zipline noun: 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.

zipline: a pulley suspended on a cable mounted on an incline, designed to enable a user to travel from one...
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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.

Verb

zipline (third-person singular simple present ziplines, present participle ziplining, simple past and past participle ziplined)

  1. (intransitive) To move or travel by zipline.
    • He shrugs, too, when commandos zipline or jetpack into his line of vision, trading fire across busy intersections.2021 August 6, A. A. Dowd, “The Ryan Reynolds action-comedy Free Guy is a Truman Show for the Fortnite age”, in The A.V. Club

zipline meaning in Tamil

zipline in Tamil

சறுக்கு வடம்

Synonyms of zipline

Forms of zipline

Noun
pluralziplines
alternative formzip-line
alternative formzip line
Verb
third-person singular presentziplines
present participleziplining
past participleziplined
pastziplined

Origin of zipline

From zip + line.

Words formed from zipline

Questions about zipline

What does zipline mean?
Zipline means 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.
What is zipline in Tamil?
Zipline in Tamil is சறுக்கு வடம். See Zipline meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is zipline?
Zipline can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce zipline?
Zipline is pronounced /ˈzɪpˌlaɪn/.
What is the plural of zipline?
The plural of zipline is ziplines.

Words near zipline in the dictionary

  1. Zipkins
  2. zipless
  3. ziplessly
  4. ziplessness
  5. ziplike
  6. zipline
  7. ziplined
  8. zipliner
  9. zipliners
  10. ziplines
  11. ziplining

Source and license

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