To free-climb (a route), while lead climbing, after having practiced the route beforehand.
Origin
red + point, as a calque of German Rotpunkt, coined by Kurt Albert in the mid-1970s at Frankenjura. He would paint a red X on a fixed pin that he could avoid using for a foothold or handhold.
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