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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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V-thread

Sports; Climbing

A type of abseiling point used especially in winter and ice climbing. Also called abalakov thread.

abalakov thread

Sports; Climbing

A type of abseiling point used especially in winter and ice climbing. Also called as V-thread.

scrambling

Sports; Climbing

A type of climbing somewhere between hiking and graded rock climbing.

sprag

Sports; Climbing

A type of hand position where the fingers and thumb are opposed.

fist jam

Sports; Climbing

A type of jam using the hand. See climbing technique.

pring-loaded camming device (SLCD)

Sports; Climbing

A type of protection device. These are better known by the term cam.

eight-thousander

Sports; Climbing

A mountain whose elevation exceeds 8,000 metres above sea level.