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tirolesa (feminine noun (la)) — zip-line, zip wire, tyrolean crossing. Look up tirolesa in the dictionary

Ese parque tiene una tirolesa muy alta y larga.
That park has a really long, high zip-line.
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Old November 12, 2009, 02:30 AM
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Ese parque tiene una tirolesa muy alta y larga.
That park has a really long, high zip-line.
I have never heard the word in English.
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Old November 12, 2009, 03:51 AM
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Zip-line and zip-wire sí conozco, pero "Tyrolean crossing" no.
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Old November 12, 2009, 05:24 AM
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Apparently, you can also call it an aerial runway, aerial ropeslide, flying fox, or a death slide in English. In Spanish, you can also call it a tirolina.
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Para mí una tirolesa es una mujer natural del Tirol. Tampoco conozco las palabras en inglés.

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Apparently, you can also call it an aerial runway, aerial ropeslide, flying fox, or a death slide in English. In Spanish, you can also call it a tirolina.
¡Ah!, una tirolina sí sé lo que es

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Old November 12, 2009, 05:42 AM
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Apparently, you can also call it an aerial runway, aerial ropeslide, flying fox, or a death slide in English. In Spanish, you can also call it a tirolina.
That's interesting - I have never heard of any of these either. I suppose I could work out what an aerial runway is, but I would think it was a rope ladder.
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Is this also known as a ski lift in English?
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Is this also known as a ski lift in English?
Ah - I've heard of one of those. The example given was incomprehensible:

That park has a really long, high zip-line.

We have plenty of parks in England, none of which as far as I know has anything to do with zips or ski-lifts.
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Pictures of zip-lines o tirolesas: (Images from Flickr users ziptheusa, Jack Fiallos, Jack Fiallos, and dMap Travel Guide respectively. Used by permission)
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Is this also known as a ski lift in English?
A ski lift takes you up in an open car hanging from a cable, a zip line takes you down, hanging in a harness from a cable.
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