[Muenchener]

It has come to this. Fifteen years as an expat, and i have encountered a thing for which I know the German word (Hochseilgarten) but have no idea what it's called in ze English. And I need it for my homework next power club entry.

So dear ukb: what is the English term for those places where mostly kids, but sometimes also their dads, swing around circuits of ropes, balance beams etc. strung between trees, whilst clipped in to a via ferrata style cable arrangement?

Online dictionaries are coming up with "high ropes course", but I'm not convinced. Sounds clumsy and I haven't heard anyone use it. Are they right?

[GCW]

Go Apeshit?

[tomtom]

Aerial assault course? (everyone just says go-ape though)..

[fried]

Acrobranch?

[Baldy]

High-Ropes is what I have always called them, but they are known by 'Go-Ape' which is a company that run several of them in the UK.

[andyd]

High-Ropes is what I have always called them, but they are known by 'Go-Ape' which is a company that run several of them in the UK.

Exactly.

I think the odd word is fine to forget. My brother occasionally forgets we don't speak German, asks us something, then wonders why we don't answer.

[SA Chris]

High or Low Ropes Course. What they were called before Go-Ape "rebranded" it. Only one I've been to that isn't the Go-Ape Brand is this

http://www.surreyhills.org/events/high-ashurst-open-day/

But there must be dozens of others.

[Fiend]

Aerial Assault.

[tregiffian]

Back in the day, the Devon Outward Bound School had a High Ropes course.

[Oldmanmatt]

It was always aerial assault bitd.
There's a great one at The River Dart Country Park (which I think was Outward Bound Devon bitd), which is not a "Go Ape".
Brilliant one in Barcelona called "Bosc Urba" built around the pillars of the solar power array.

[tregiffian]

The marines who initially put it up made no provision for clipping on. Such naughty boys. But it gave you to think seriously what you were doing.

[Muenchener]

I think the odd word is fine to forget.

In this case it's more a matter of never knew it in the first place.

Thanks everyone.

[jwi]

I'm very surprised that it hasn't happened sooner for you. You must keep yourself quite up-to-date with your native language by reading/watching telly/listening to radio/etc?

[Muenchener]

Mostly reading stuff on the 'net, these days. I'm certainly not up to date on current British slang, but otoh I don't have whole areas of knowledge that I can only talk about in Foreign. Unlike for example my mate who learned to ski in France.

[Oldmanmatt]

The marines who initially put it up made no provision for clipping on. Such naughty boys. But it gave you to think seriously what you were doing.

Pat Pope built one around the old flooded quarry in Tavi. Used to go up there with my Dad and Ron Hart, when I were a'Lad.
His kicks were had by making kids carry a 20' length of drainpipe around it.

There were no harnesses or safety lines...

He had the roof of a VW van, that he'd gas axed off, as a boat (with outboard on), that he bombed around the lake in.

He'd make us build rafts to sleep on and then lob Thunderflashes onto us in the middle of the night.


Probably explains a lot about the rest of my life...

CDR Patrick Pope RN (SBS). RIP.
The world was better before HSE.

[fatdoc]

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