- present participle of rig.
rigging
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It has added rigging and fencing businesses and is pursuing work in live events and sports alongside film and TV.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
With its tar-soaked rigging, creaking oak deck and 50 spruce oars, Draken Harald Harfagre is the largest modern replica of a Viking ship.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
Meta, meanwhile, is still going strong but has experienced its own earthquakes: from privacy scandals and election rigging accusations to teen mental health crises and toxic online harms.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
Instead, they were allegedly responsible for the outright rigging of games—and persuaded more than three dozen players to go along with it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026
Alongside the pirates, the girls climbed up the rigging and cut down ropes, dropping them to the deck.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
Instead, firefighters responded to the scene with ropes and riggings and rappelled down to the man’s location.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2022
After boarding their ships, the players unfurled sails, turned rudders, and climbed riggings to move between a series of tropical islands, climbing ashore to explore the new locations.
From The Verge ● Jun. 13, 2016
The pulleys and riggings of the mine at night, after the first snow.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 12, 2015
Robert Brill’s clean, sturdy sets included towering masts, spidery riggings and, in one scene, a brilliantly realized whale-rendering works.
From New York Times ● May 2, 2010
Bright arrays of nautical pennants dangled from their riggings.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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