Vertical caving terminology and methods > Knots > Knot construction and behaviour
A knot with a loop of rope coming out of the knot, passing around an object, then passing back through part of the knot without being tied to it. When the end of that rope is loaded, the loop shortens until it is pulled tightly against whatever object was inside the loop. A noose is used in situations where the knot is not intended to be undone, such as permanently tying a rope to a piece of equipment, and therefore has very limited uses in practice. For a noose to be useful for SRT, the slipping side of the noose must be the load bearing side of the knot. If the slipping side of the noose is the tail of the knot, then it is a slipped knot. The term slip knot should not really be used for most nooses, since that is actually the name of a slipped version of the overhand noose. However, the term is often incorrectly used for all nooses anyway. Many common noose knots can be tied on a bight.
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