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:
“The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.”
—Catherine Drinker Bowen (1897–1973)