A device attached to a rock face through which a climbing rope runs freely, acting as a pulley if the climber falls.
〔登山〕攀岩保护装置
Example sentencesExamples
Set a running belay with a black diamond turbo ice screw, then clip in and proceed with confidence.
We put in a beautiful camp here in the basin and did a back carry this afternoon and went through some of our technical skills, fixed line skills and running belay skills, practice for the upper mountain.
Definition of running belay in US English:
running belay
noun
Climbing
A device attached to a rock face through which a climbing rope runs freely, acting as a pulley if the climber falls.
〔登山〕攀岩保护装置
Example sentencesExamples
We put in a beautiful camp here in the basin and did a back carry this afternoon and went through some of our technical skills, fixed line skills and running belay skills, practice for the upper mountain.
Set a running belay with a black diamond turbo ice screw, then clip in and proceed with confidence.