Rope (disambiguation)

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

Entertainment

• Rope (play), a 1929 play by Patrick Hamilton
  • Rope (film), a 1948 film by Alfred Hitchcock based on the play
• Roped, a 1919 silent film directed by John Ford and starring Harry Carey
• Rope (1957 film), an Australian television film
• Rope (1959 film), an Australian TV play
• Rudens, a play by Roman author Plautus whose title is translated into English as The Rope

Music

• The Rope, a 1986 album by Black Tape for a Blue Girl
• "Rope" (song), a single from Foo Fighters 2011 album Wasting Light

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

See also

• Ropes (disambiguation)