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{{Infobox Traps
| Name            = Rolling Boulder 
| Image           = Boulder.jpg
| Occurrence      = 
* [[Tomb Raider]]
* [[Tomb Raider III]]
* [[Tomb Raider Chronicles]]
* [[Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Legend|Tomb Raider Legend]]
| Type            = 
| Related         = [[Pits|Pit]]
| Strategy        = grab hold of rope, swing and jump off
}}[[Image:Boulder.jpg|thumb|150px|right|Boulder]] 
The '''Rolling Boulder''' (also '''Rolling Ball''' if spherical) is a very common [[trap]] in the [[Tomb Raider Series|Tomb Raider]] and [[Lara Croft Series|Lara Croft Games]]. These spherical or almost spherical rocks come tumbling down slopes and threaten to squash Lara when she's in their path.

Prior to [[Last Revelation]], the balls are not physics based, and will only roll in one direction at a constant speed, until they hit a ledge, wall, or a slope that faces the other way. However in the fourth game it is physics based and it bounces and rolls according to the terrain.

The boulder was not featured in [[Chronicles]] and [[The Angel of Darkness]].

Boulders always kill Lara instantly unless she is in a [[vehicle]]. She bleeds extensively in the first three games when flattened by a boulder.


==Occurrence==

===Tomb Raider===
* [[Tomb of Qualopec]]
: One of the passages in the entrance chamber of the Tomb of Qualopec contains a boulder.
* [[St. Francis' Folly]]
* [[Tomb of Tihocan]]
* [[City of Khamoon]]
* [[Natla's Mines]]
: In Natla's Mines the boulders Lara encounters are actually lava boulders.
* [[Atlantis]]
* [[The Great Pyramid]]


===Tomb Raider II===
* [[The Great Wall]]
: In the level [[The Great Wall]] Lara has to run from a number of rolling boulders.
* [[Opera House]]
: In the Opera House Lara is once again confronted with several boulders of different sizes at once.
* [[Barkhang Monastery]]
: In the [[Tibet]] levels Lara is confronted by a similar trap made out of giant rolling snowballs, the [[avalanche]].
* [[Temple of Xian]]
* [[Floating Islands]]


===Tomb Raider III===
* [[Jungle]]
* [[Caves of Kaliya]]
* [[Temple Ruins]]
* [[Madubu Gorge]]
* [[Temple of Puna]]


===The Lost Artifact===
* [[Willard's Lair]]


===Tomb Raider IV: The Last Revelation===
* [[Coastal Ruins]]



===Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Legend===
* [[Bolivia - Tiwanaku]] 
: The first real trap in [[Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Legend]] is a giant boulder.
* [[Ghana - Pursuing James Rutland]]

{{Quote|--Zip in [[Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Legend|Legend]] after Lara narrowly escapes a boulder in Bolivia.|"That was too close."}}


===Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Anniversary===
* [[Tomb of Qualopec]]
* [[St. Francis Folly]]



==similar Traps==
* [[rolling Spike Balls]]
Besides boulders there are [[barrels]], [[avalanches]], [[Falling Rocks|rocks]] and more that will make you jump out of the way.







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Image:Boulder.jpg|Spherical Boulder ([[Tomb Raider III|TRIII]])
Image:Bouldertrl.jpg|Spherical Boulder  ([[Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Legend|Legend]])
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