rope trick
Cowboy's twirling feat
A rope trick is a magic illusion or feat of skill involving rope—making it stand rigid, appear to climb unsupported, or transform in unexpected ways.
The Indian rope trick, in which a rope rises into the air and a boy climbs it, is legendary though never reliably documented.
More broadly, any clever manipulation or sleight of hand: That accounting was quite a rope trick.
Unsupported aerial suspension
- illusionMisleading sensory impression
- conjuringPerforming magical illusions
- fakirReligious ascetic mendicant
- magicianPerformer of illusions
illusionist · sleight of hand · misdirection · vanishing · suspension · hypnosis · street magic · stage magic
Agile circus performer
- tightropeTaut cord for walking
- trapezeSuspended acrobatic bar
- aerialElevated, or signal-catcher
- riggingRopes controlling ship sails
balancing · performer · big top · ringmaster · contortionist · aerialist · high wire · death-defying
levitation
Unsupported aerial suspension
- illusionMisleading sensory impression
- conjuringPerforming magical illusions
- fakirReligious ascetic mendicant
magician · illusionist · sleight of hand · misdirection · vanishing · suspension · hypnosis · street magic · stage magic · escapology
acrobat
Agile circus performer
rigging · balancing · performer · big top · ringmaster · contortionist · aerialist · high wire · death-defying · swinging
lasso
Looped rope for catching
twirling · loop · spinning · ranch · vaquero · charro · Wild West show · steer · horsemanship · flourish
tying
Forming a knot
- knottingForming fixed interlacements
- splicingConnecting by interweaving ends
- hitchesMinor problems or fastening knots
bends · loops · bowline · figure-eight · sailor · seamanship · rigging · macramé · braiding · coiling
- tricksillusion, sleight of hand, sleight, vanishing act, disappearing act
- magicwizard, wand, sorcerer, witchcraft, mage
- party tricksspoon bending, juggling, balloon animal, pen spinning, matchstick puzzle
- figure-8 shapesinfinity symbol, figure-eight knot
- levitationfloating, hovering, magnetic levitation, maglev, anti-gravity