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:
“They have gone about the world like wind,
But little time had they to pray
For whom the hangman’s rope was spun,
And what, God help us, could they save?”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“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)