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Rope is a length of fibers that are twisted or braided together
Rope may also refer to:
- Wire rope, a length of metallic fibers twisted or braided together
Computing
- Core rope memory, a ferrite read-only memory
- IpTables Rope, an open-source firewall programming language
- Rope (data structure), a data structure used in computer science
Film, television and theatre
- Rope (play), a 1929 play by Patrick Hamilton
- Rope (film), a 1948 film by Alfred Hitchcock based on the play
- Rope (1957 film), an Australian TV adaptation originally aired by ABC
- Rope (1959 television play), an Australian TV adaptation originally aired by GTV
- The Rope (miniseries), a 2021 French thriller miniseries
- Roped, a 1919 silent film directed by John Ford and starring Harry Carey
- Rudens (lit. The Rope), a 3rd-century BC play by Plautus
Music
- The Rope, a 1986 album by Black Tape for a Blue Girl
- "Rope" (song), by Foo Fighters, 2011
Persons with surname Rope
- Bryce Rope (1923–2013), New Zealand rugby union coach
- Donald Rope (1929–2009), Canadian ice-hockey player
- Ellen Mary Rope (1855–1934), English sculptor
- John Rope (1855 or 1863–1944), White Mountain Apache clan leader and Apache scout
- Margaret Agnes Rope (1882–1953), English stained glass artist (cousin of M E Aldrich Rope)
- M. E. Aldrich Rope (1891–1988), English stained glass artist (cousin of Margaret Agnes Rope)
Other uses
- Colloquial for execution by hanging
- Research Opportunity and Performance Evidence (ROPE), concept used by the Australian Research Council
- Rope, or Corde lisse, an aerial acrobatics attribute/discipline
- Rope (rhythmic gymnastics), a rhythmic gymnastics apparatus
- Rope (torture), an instrument of torture used by the Huguenots
- Rope (unit), any of several units of measurement
- Boundary rope in cricket
- Rope, Cheshire, a civil parish in Cheshire
- Rope climbing, a sport
- Fast-roping (or Fast Rope Insertion Extraction System), a military assault technique
See also
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