A ski lift on which riders are seated

Usage examples of chairlift.

Richard Wakefield was saying, "first priorities are the light­weight individual chairlifts by the right and left stairways and one heavy load elevator from the hub to the Central Plain.

But they had underestimated how long it would take them to install the lightweight chairlift, The concept was extremely simple and they had practiced it several times in the simulations.

Beside them on the Central Plain the ultralight motor and the self-contained portable power station for the chairlift were already in operation.

It was almost impossible for him to fathom the miraculous concatenation of events that had carried him from his boyhood home in Stratford to Cambridge to the Space Academy in Colorado and finally to here, to Rama, where he was riding a chairlift in the dark along the Stairway to the Gods.

He could barely discern Janos Tabori, the chairlift apparatus, and the half-completed campsite down at the bottom of the stairway.

We will finish the two chairlifts, carry the rover down for assembly later this evening, and all sleep in the campsite at the foot of the stairway as planned.

The frame showed a portion of the bottom of the stairway and the equipment for the chairlift as well.

She had a quick flashback to another chairlift ride, this one in Switzerland some two months before.

His throat caught and his eyes brimmed with tears of wonder on several different occasions: riding down the chairlift on his initial descent and look­ing out across the Central Plain with its long illuminated strips that were Rama's light.

Cautious by nature with her expectations, until this moment in the chairlift she had not allowed herself the intense pleasure of believing that she would ever again hold her beloved Genevieve in her arms.

I left a beacon at the bottom of the chairlift After I arrived at Beta and saw that you had removed the sailboat and its parts, I sent the rover back on automatic.

They both remembered the overpowering feelings they had had riding in the chairlifts in Rama and looking out across the Cylindrical Sea at the mysterious horns in the southern bowl.

Karen and I were flushed, slightly embarrassed, processing all these new bodily sensations while feeling transformedand then we rose up again, up the mountain on a bobbing chairlift that stalled halfway up the slope.

The chairlift then lurched forward a few feet, the lights flickered on, then stopped.

I stashed the envelope in my down jacket's pocket and then the chairlift jumped into motion again.