If for instance there had been a wire walker the reprise would involve two chairs with a piece of rope between and the clown trying to imitate the artiste by trying to walk between them with the resulting falls and cascades bringing laughter from the audience.

From then on until the early 1950s, both national and international competitions involved a changing variety of exercises gathered under the rubric, gymnastics, that would seem strange to today's audiences and that included for example, synchronized team floor calisthenics, rope climbing, high jumping, running, and horizontal ladder.

When larger scale battles ensued, Viking crews would rope together all nearby ships and slowly proceed towards the enemy targets.

Historically, the prayer rope would typically have 100 knots, although prayer ropes with 50 or 33 knots can also be found in use today.

He started by tying a leather rope with a simple knot for every time he prayed Kyrie Eleison (" Lord have Mercy "), but the Devil would come and untie the knots to throw off his count.

Modern snowboarding began in 1965 when Sherman Poppen, an engineer in Muskegon, Michigan, invented a toy for his daughter by fastening two skis together and attaching a rope to one end so she would have some control as she stood on the board and glided downhill.

That is, in a frictionless system, every unit of force exerted on the working end would produce 3 units in the standing part of the rope over the load.

Other things they stole were household items like bits of soap and gear like rope and anchors, or sometimes they would keep the ship they captured ( either to sell off or keep because it was better than their ship ).

In the sitcom, he was capable of speech ; beckoned by the pull of a noose-shaped rope which sounded a thunderous gong, he would answer in a signature monotone, laconic basso profundo, " You rang?

After the new Pope accepts his election, he would give his new name ; at this time, the other Cardinals would tug on a rope attached to their seats to lower their canopies.

The high climber ( also known as a tree topper ) used iron climbing hooks and rope to ascend a tall tree in the landing area of the logging site, where he would chop off limbs as he climbed, chop off the top of the tree, and finally attach pulleys and rigging to the tree so it could be used as a spar so logs could be skidded into the landing.

If the shoreline was reasonably clear the canoe could be ' tracked ' or ' lined ', that is, the canoemen would pull the canoe on a rope while one man stayed onboard to keep it away from the shore.

When several oxen were moved at once, the canoeist guided a lead animal with a rope so that the others would follow ; if, however, the lead animal became confused and started swimming in circles, the other animals followed until they tired and eventually drowned.

During the summers, when the weather favored travel more, each settlement would send an army of men to hunt in Disko Bay above the Arctic Circle for food and other valuable commodities such as seals ( used for rope ), ivory from Walrus tusks, and beached whales.

One person would turn the wood work piece with a rope while the other used a sharp tool to cut shapes in the wood.

Instead of everyone falling the same standard distance, the person's height and weight were used to determine how much slack would be provided in the rope so that the distance dropped would be enough to ensure that the neck was broken, but not so much that the person was decapitated.

It would have come right over his head had it not caught roughly at a point halfway up the hood – it had in fact been stopped on his upper lip by the projection of his nose – and the body jerked down, then became absolutely still apart from the swinging of the rope.

The observation that the butterfly loop is secure enough to isolate a worn or damaged section of rope within the loop indicated that the bend form of the knot would be similarly secure.

This depicts the heroine of the novel, but shows her in the latest fashions of 1800, rather than in the very different historically-accurate hoopskirt s of 1749 — it would have been extremely difficult to jump rope in the clothing styles ( and high-heeled shoes ) of 1749 ...

Now is the time to see whether the Union is a rope of sand or a band of steel .” Again he said: “ I consider no evil as great as slavery, and I would pass the Wilmot Proviso whether the South rebel or not .” During the first session, he volunteered as counsel for Drayton and Sayres, who were indicted for stealing 76 slaves in the District of Columbia, and at the trial was engaged for 21 successive days in their defense.

For the incline from Euston Station to Chalk Farm, Stephenson devised a system that would draw trains up the hill by a rope using a stationary steam engine near The Roundhouse.

The ordeal would normally be conducted with a rope holding the subject connected to assistants sitting in a boat or the like, so that the person being tested could be pulled in if he / she did not float ; the notion that the ordeal was flatly devised as a situation without any possibility of live acquittal, even if the outcome was ' innocent ', is a modern elaboration.

The people would not hear of violence being done to their bishop ; they rushed upon the house where the general was, set fire to it, killed him on the spot, tied a rope round his feet, pulled him out from the burning building, and dragged him in triumph round the city.

Bags of abalone prized from the rocks are brought to the surface by the diver or by way of " shot line ", where the deckhand drops a weighted rope for the catch bag to be connected then retrieved.

Also, if laced together with rope instead of wire, the rope can be very quickly destroyed by such fires, after which the abatis can be quickly pulled apart by grappling hooks thrown from a safe distance.

Pole climbing and rope climbing were among the first exercises to be included in the origins of modern gymnastics in the late 18th century and early 19th century.

Those used in sports tend to be of a lighter weight than those used in commercial applications and rope rescue.

Crossbow bolts can be fitted with a variety of heads, some with sickle-shaped heads to cut rope or rigging ; but the most common today is a four-sided point called a quarrel.

Starting in 2011, the rhythmic apparatus rope will be removed from all FIG events and clubs will be returned to the competition.

The lead rope is separate, and it may be short ( from six to ten feet, two to three meters ) for everyday leading and tying, or much longer ( up to, eight meters ) for tasks such as for leading packhorses or for picketing a horse out to graze.

The lead rope cannot be removed from the halter.

When pairs of horses are used in drawing a wagon or coach it is usual for the outer side of each pair to be connected to reins and the inside of the bits connected by a short bridging strap or rope.

A rein may be attached to a halter to lead or guide the horse in a circle for training purposes or to lead a packhorse, but a simple lead rope is more often used for these purposes.

This can be mitigated by leaving plenty of rope at the working end outside of the knot, and by dressing the knot cleanly and tightening it as much as possible before loading.

Sometimes this problem can be corrected by working-up the knot tighter before subjecting it to load, but usually the problem requires either a knot with more wraps or a rope of different diameter or material.

It can be grown around a rope that is anchored to the sea floor so that they do not drift away.

The skins could be attached by wrapping small, smooth rocks in the skins with rope or leather strips.

Devised in China as chain pumps over 1000 years ago, these pumps can be made from very simple materials: A rope, a wheel and a PVC pipe are sufficient to make a simple rope pump.

The drive element of a pulley system can be a rope, cable, belt, or chain that runs over the pulley inside the groove.

A rope and pulley system, that is a block and tackle, is characterized by the use of a single continuous rope to transmit a tension force around one or more pulleys to lift or move a load — the rope may be a light line or a strong cable.

If there are p of these parts of the rope supporting the load W, then a force balance on the moving block shows that the tension in each of the parts of the rope must be W / p.