Sports

Sports

Of or pertaining to any organized, competitive, entertaining, and skillful activity or game requiring commitment, strategy, and fair play, in which a winner can be defined by objective means within a specified set of rules.

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carabiner

Sports; Climbing

Metal rings with spring-loaded gates, used as connectors. Usually oval or roughly D shaped. Also known as crab or biner (pronounced kar-uh-bee-ner).

moving together

Sports; Climbing

Method of climbing – used on easy Alpine ground – in which two or more climbers climb at the same time with running belays between them and fixed belays not being used. Similar ...

realized ultimate reality piton (RURP)

Sports; Climbing

Miniature, postage-stamp sized piton originally designed by Yvon Chouinard.

fourteener

Sports; Climbing

Mountain that tops 14,000 feet (4,300 m) in the contiguous United States.

static

Sports; Climbing

Of a style of climbing or specific move, not dynamic.

polish

Sports; Climbing

On popular routes, the sheer passage of traffic can polish the rock to such an extent as to make the climbing much more difficult. This is most common at the crux, and on certain ...