He veered further, beginning to catch the ground; in a moment he would be rolling back uphill, and gravity would help stay his motion.

Thus, a car left out of gear will appear to be rolling uphill against gravity.

There was my father, white-faced, black-cloaked, his hair the color of a midwinter fire, showing a tiny girl how to point her finger and make pebbles roll uphill.

No-his new understanding told him that the boulders were cars-wheel-less wagons able to roll uphill without being hauled by horses.

If everything else is becoming more "stable" this can outweigh the ball rolling uphill in the reaction.

Juanita's car rolled uphill through a last stretch of sparse grass and between a pair of electronic perimeter stakes.

Odd angles seem to create an illusion of objects seemingly rolling uphill.

Honda's advertising firm Wieden+Kennedy eventually admitted to copying a sequence of weighted tires rolling uphill.

It is also known as Gravity Hill, for there is a superstition that cars roll uphill there.

The title is a reference to Electric Brae in Ayrshire, where a natural optical illusion makes it seem that things can roll uphill.