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:
“But when we play the fool, how wide
The theatre expands! beside,
How long the audience sits before us!
How many prompters! what a chorus!”
—Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)
“The dead bell,
The dead bell.
Somebody’s done for.”
—Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)