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Not to be confused with [[Fast Roping]]. A supertrope of [[Bedsheet Ladder]].
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* In the commercials for Push Pop, the cartoon character uses the Push Pop itself to slide across a rope between buildings.▼
* In a MasterCard commercial, [[MacGyver]] escapes from a room with a bomb in it using a tube sock. Tube sock: $4. [[Refuge in Audacity]]: Priceless▼
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Pokémon Special]]'', Ruby uses his Pokeblock case as a zipline on the thread his Marshtop is holding up to escape the flames Courtney is trying to kill him with.
** Earlier, Janine uses her Ariados as a zipline, with it retracting silk from one end and shooting it out from another.
▲== [[Commercials]] ==
▲* In the commercials for Push Pop, the cartoon character uses the Push Pop itself to slide across a rope between buildings.
▲* In a MasterCard commercial, [[MacGyver]] escapes from a room with a bomb in it using a tube sock. Tube sock: $4. [[Refuge in Audacity]]: Priceless
== [[Film]] ==
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* This happens in the [[Scott Westerfeld]] novel ''[[Leviathan (novel)|Leviathan]]'': Deryn is up in a scouting balloon and sees Alek's "family" coming to the shipwreck looking for him in their Stormwalker. The message lizard won't get down the cable in time, so she slings a leather strap over the tether and zips down to camp.
== [[Live
* In ''[[Chuck]]'' season 3 when he was training to be a "real" spy, Chuck had to do a zipline using a power line and his belt as the pulley, but failed. Then at the end of the ep he was forced to [[Chekhov's Gun|use a power line as a zip line with his belt as the pulley]]. This time he succeeded.
* Busted by the ''[[MythBusters]]'' in the case of using your pants to zip down a ski lift: There's too much friction, the angle of the lift isn't steep enough, and either the pants or your grip will fail first.
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[[Category:Improvised Index]]
[[Category:Television Is Trying to Kill Us]]
[[Category:Action Adventure Tropes]]
[[Category:Chase Scene]]
▲[[Category:Improvised Zipline]]
[[Category:Tropes Examined by the Mythbusters]]
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