Play Dead may refer to:
- 'Playing dead', a natural state of paralysis that some animals enter when threatened, see Apparent death
- Play Dead (band), an English gothic rock group
- "Play Dead" (song), by Björk
- Play Dead (album), by Astrid
- Play Dead (zombie rock album) by Amanda Richards
- Play Dead (novel), by Harlan Coben
- Play Dead (1981 film), a 1981 horror film
- Play Dead (2009 film), a 2009 black comedy film
- Play Dead (show), a 2010 Off Broadway entertainment directed by Teller
- "Playing Dead" (Law & Order: Criminal Intent), an episode of Criminal Intent
- Playdead, video game development company
Famous quotes containing the words play and/or dead:
“Hail, comly and clene,
Hail, yong child!
Hail, maker, as I meene,
Of a maden so milde!”
—Unknown. The Second Shepherd’s Play (l. 6–8)
“The comfortable smell of friendly fingers,
Hair’s fragrance, and the musty reek that lingers
About dead leaves and last year’s ferns. . . .”
—Rupert Brooke (1887–1915)