title: Rope (disambiguation)
text: # Rope (disambiguation)
  
  Rope is a length of fibers that are twisted or braided together
  
  Rope may also refer to:
  
  ## 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
  