Capturing cattle or horses with a lasso

Usage examples of roping.

The climber was methodical, working multi-pitch, shooting out spindles of wire ahead that buried and fused into the rock, testing the weight of the anchors, squatting to plant rivets beneath us, roping hexes into the cracks, taking the slack, testing, belaying, moving on.

Part of the afternoon-long festivities included some friendly competition among the cowboys, matching their skills in ranch-related events such as team roping, cutting cattle, tug-of-war on horseback, and breakaway roping, and in gymkhana events such as barrel racing and pole bending.

Somewhere, he knew, crews were already on the move, locating old pits, roping safe trails, tagging ancient junk hidden by the tall brush for later removal.

Starlitz roping in the services of his favorite paparazzo to stoke the media for the G-7 Turkish tour.

It comes out of the ground as two ivy trunks on opposite sides of the stoutest bole, but at a height of four feet from the surface the two join and ascend the tree as one round iron-coloured and iron-hard stem, which goes curving and winding snakewise among the branches as if with the object of roping them to save them from being torn off by the winds.

Lady Atago leafed through the printout with growing enthusiasm, Wichman congratulated himself on his foresight in roping Lo Prek into his organization.

Getting off the train at Florence too late to ride on, Longarm got a room in a third-class hotel near the railside stockyards, drawing looks that were thoughtful to hostile as he deposited the loaded-up roping saddle on the floor near the desk to sign in.

Hereford riding, bareback bucking pony riding, team roping of the same sad-sack cow by six entrants, and pony racing for kids.

Maggie picked out her son among the riders roping calves and dragging them to the branding crews.

It was like that all night, through the team roping, the barrel racing, the bareback broncos, the bulls, and then finally, she saw him.

There, with others like himself, he participates in roping, steer wrestling, bronco busting, and other strenuous contests, the chief prize of which have been repeated visits to a hospital emergency ward.

I have a great little mare out of Skipper W that I use for calf roping.

In the two buckskin sacks he was roping on either side of the lead horse he had flint stones for fire, rat's nests for tinder, bundles of cut thongs, some sharp-edged rocks that were sometimes hard to find and cut indifferently well, three spare kill-clubs-one heavy enough to crush a bear's skull just in case- some warm robes that didn't stink very much, a couple of buckskins for spare clothes.

That's what we was doing in the basin last night, taking on stores, 'cause we're going to a big muster up in the fens, what we call a roping.