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:
“... work is only part of a man’s life; play, family, church, individual and group contacts, educational opportunities, the intelligent exercise of citizenship, all play a part in a well-rounded life. Workers are men and women with potentialities for mental and spiritual development as well as for physical health. We are paying the price today of having too long sidestepped all that this means to the mental, moral, and spiritual health of our nation.”
—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)
“Panoramas are not what they used to be.
Claude has been dead a long time
And apostrophes are forbidden on the funicular.
Marx has ruined Nature,
For the moment.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)