DEAR AMY: I am having a running disagreement with my 24-year-old daughter about gratuitous risk taking, such as rappelling and skydiving.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ask Amy] Reference

In addition to the main segments, the organizers throw in extra challenges, such as rappelling, swim­ming.    From Wordnik.com.  [Triathlon not enough? Add rappelling, mud pit crawl at east Alabama adventure race | al.com] Reference

He had survived the booby-trapped rappelling line.    From Wordnik.com.  [Second Skin]

They began rappelling down the face of the building.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Zero]

I don't fancy rappelling down a vine in the darkness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Survivors]

Then soldiers began bailing out, rappelling down, one after the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ice Hunt]

HEMMER: So this is you rappelling down the side of that building, right?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 6, 2003] Reference

We geared up again for rappelling and descended 20 meters into the abyss.    From Wordnik.com.  [Search for the Maya Underworld - Day Eight] Reference

Without the rappelling team, they could not have made it up to this site.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arctic Fire]

Mark who, as a firefighter, also has some expertise rappelling, of course.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 3, 2004] Reference

The downclimbing and rappelling are easy enough for me; the walking not so.    From Wordnik.com.  [Canyoneering Heaven] Reference

But the nastiest part was rappelling those wagons down the steepest places.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time Enough For Love]

Santa's trying to make a big, grand entrance by rappelling down the billboard.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 19, 2007] Reference

Or you can whisk up and down the cliffs on a "Spiderman" rappelling adventure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bob Schulman: Look! Up in the Sky! It's a Bird... It's a Plane... No, It's a Tourist!] Reference

There was no way to gain access to the terrace short of rappelling from the rooftop.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hardcase]

"No thank you," Valyn replied, as he rigged the rope around his waist for rappelling.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elvenbane]

Twist is the one who's conversant in phrases like scree, dryfall, rappelling, and chute.    From Wordnik.com.  [June 2006] Reference

Roped among these giants, he took pictures while rappelling down from the forest canopy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time-Lapse Photos Capture Disappearing World] Reference

Quinn was in good shape, but rappelling down a mountain used muscles he never knew existed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hunt]

Most of the boardings, with commandos rappelling down ropes from helicopters, went smoothly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Israel's Gaza Flotilla Fiasco] Reference

One building houses the "climbing wall" with simulated jagged rocks for rappelling exercises.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mind Of A Commando] Reference

Hafer was in jail for allegedly rappelling into a K-mart after closing time to steal jewelry.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 6, 2008] Reference

But plenty of people court danger by rappelling down canyons and camping in remote woodlands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phoning Home Without a Phone] Reference

There are pictures of the cave explorers literally crawliing on them and rappelling off them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quantum Hyperion] Reference

On the way as I was rappelling down, because it was dark, we didn't know exactly where he was.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 3, 2004] Reference

Santa was making a grand entrance from above when his whiskers got stuck in his rappelling equipment.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 19, 2007] Reference

Saw them rappelling, climbing down ropes from beneath helicopters to simulate the storming of a building.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 11, 2005] Reference

He then began rappelling into the deep fissures that cleave the cliff, carefully passing by sunbathing rattlesnakes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lessons Of The Tombs] Reference

This was the scene this morning right above Rockefeller Plaza, as models were rappelling along a nine-story vertical runway.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 27, 2005] Reference

When she's not studying inside the walls of Cornell University, you'll find incoming sophomore Monica Meeks rappelling down them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Want To 'Play In The Mud'?] Reference

Dina had instructed a nine-year-old Kate in the art of rappelling down a cliff face, after Ruthe had taught her how to get up it.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fine and Bitter Snow]

A BBC documentary crew followed Mandelson around the Dome one day after a work crew in rappelling harnesses finished erecting the roof.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why The Dome Was A Dud] Reference

CHETRY: Now, we're actually looking at video right now of you, I guess you're rappelling down there to pluck somebody out of the water.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 15, 2008] Reference