Playing dead may refer to:
- Playing dead (in Korean "시체놀이"), a version of the Lying down game, also similar to Planking
- Apparent death, an antipredator behavior observed in a wide range of animals in which they take on the appearance of being dead to an observer
Famous quotes containing the words playing and/or dead:
“I’ve given parties that have made Indian rajahs green with envy. I’ve had prima donnas break $10,000 engagements to come to my smallest dinners. When you were still playing button back in Ohio, I entertained on a cruising trip that was so much fun that I had to sink my yacht to make my guests go home.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
“Some sepulcher, remote, alone,
Against whose portal she hath thrown,
In childhood, many an idle stone—
Some tomb from out whose sounding door
She ne’er shall force an echo more,
Thrilling to think, poor child of sin!
It was the dead who groaned within.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)