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go ape

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  1. go apeverb

    To become wildly excited or enthusiastic.

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  1. Go Ape

    Go Ape! is an outdoor adventure company which runs tree top ropes courses under the names Tree Top Challenge, Tree Top Adventure and Zip Trekking, as well as ground-based Forest Segway Safaris, at locations across the United Kingdom and the United States.

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  1. Go Ape

    Go Ape Ltd. is an outdoor adventure company which runs 29 Tree Top adventure courses in forests in England, Scotland and Wales consisting of rope ladders, zip-lines, rope bridges, trapezes and swings. The course in Queen Elizabeth Forest Park, near Aberfoyle in Stirling, has one of the longest zip-lines in Britain. There are also nine Forest Segway experiences and five Tree Top Junior adventures.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of go ape in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of go ape in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of go ape in a Sentence

  1. Tobias Deschner:

    It could be that sharing of food resources by chimpanzees, gorillas and forest elephants in Loango National Park in Gabon result in increased competition and sometimes even in lethal interactions between the two great ape species.

  2. H.L. Mencken:

    It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

  3. Simone Pika:

    We have regularly observed both species interacting peacefully in foraging trees. Our colleagues from Congo even witnessed playful interactions between the two great ape species.

  4. Baltasar Gracian:

    At 20 a man is a peacock, at 30 a lion, at 40 a camel, at 50 a serpent, at 60 a dog, at 70 an ape, and at 80 nothing.

  5. June Jordan:

    Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law. Because, in other words, the powerful don't play; they mean to keep that power, and those who are the powerless (you and me) better shape up --mimic/ape/suck --in the very image of the powerful, or the powerful will destroy you --you and our children.

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