All quicksand synonyms

noun quicksand

• decoy — If you refer to something or someone as a decoy, you mean that they are intended to attract people's attention and deceive them, for example by leading them into a trap or away from a particular place.
• enticement — Something used to attract or to tempt someone; a lure.
• entrapment — The state of being entrapped.
• lure — anything that attracts, entices, or allures.
• net — net income, profit, or the like.
• noose — a loop with a running knot, as in a snare, lasso, or hangman's halter, that tightens as the rope is pulled.
• pitfall — a lightly covered and unnoticeable pit prepared as a trap for people or animals.
• temptation — the act of tempting; enticement or allurement.
• trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
• wire — a slender, stringlike piece or filament of relatively rigid or flexible metal, usually circular in section, manufactured in a great variety of diameters and metals depending on its application.
• inveiglement — to entice, lure, or ensnare by flattery or artful talk or inducements (usually followed by into): to inveigle a person into playing bridge.
• ambush — If a group of people ambush their enemies, they attack them after hiding and waiting for them.
• device — A device is an object that has been invented for a particular purpose, for example for recording or measuring something.
• ploy — a maneuver or stratagem, as in conversation, to gain the advantage.
• ruse — a city in N Bulgaria, on the Danube.
• ambuscade — an ambush
• artifice — Artifice is the clever use of tricks and devices.
• conspiracy — Conspiracy is the secret planning by a group of people to do something illegal.
• dragnet — a net to be drawn along the bottom of a river, pond, etc., or along the ground, to catch fish, small game, etc.
• feint — a movement made in order to deceive an adversary; an attack aimed at one place or point merely as a distraction from the real place or point of attack: military feints; the feints of a skilled fencer.
• gambit — Chess. an opening in which a player seeks to obtain some advantage by sacrificing a pawn or piece.
• intrigue — to arouse the curiosity or interest of by unusual, new, or otherwise fascinating or compelling qualities; appeal strongly to; captivate: The plan intrigues me, but I wonder if it will work.
• lasso — a long rope or line of hide or other material with a running noose at one end, used for roping horses, cattle, etc.
• machination — an act or instance of machinating.
• maneuver — a planned and regulated movement or evolution of troops, warships, etc.