The term rope trick can refer to more than one thing.
- Any magic trick involving a rope
- Indian rope trick, a trick involving causing a rope to appear to levitate in the air and then climbing up it; commonly associated with Indian fakirs
- Trick roping, in western arts or wild west shows
- Rope trick effect, in physics, seen in photographs of nuclear explosions when there are ropes attached to the exploding object
Famous quotes containing the words rope and/or trick:
“There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)