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:
“Arrogance rides triumphantly through the gates, barely glancing at the old woman about to cut the rope and spring shut the trap.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“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)