Play Dead may refer to:
- 'Playing dead', a natural state of paralysis that some animals enter when threatened, see Apparent death
- Play Dead (band), an English gothic rock group
- "Play Dead" (song), by Björk
- Play Dead (album), by Astrid
- Play Dead (zombie rock album) by Amanda Richards
- Play Dead (novel), by Harlan Coben
- Play Dead (1981 film), a 1981 horror film
- Play Dead (2009 film), a 2009 black comedy film
- Play Dead (show), a 2010 Off Broadway entertainment directed by Teller
- "Playing Dead" (Law & Order: Criminal Intent), an episode of Criminal Intent
- Playdead, video game development company
Famous quotes containing the words play and/or dead:
“Assuming that rapture is nature’s play with man, the Dionysian artist’s creative activity is the play with rapture.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“When the Somalians were merely another hungry third world people, we sent them guns. Now that they are falling down dead from starvation, we send them troops. Some may see in this a tidy metaphor for the entire relationship between north and south. But it would make a whole lot more sense nutritionally—as well as providing infinitely more vivid viewing—if the Somalians could be persuaded to eat the troops.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)