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)
“It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)