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== [[Film]] ==
 
* In ''[[Charade (Film)|Charade]]'', Cary Grant's character follows an assailant out the window and across a few balconies
* Silverstein does this in ''Tiempo De Valientes'' (an argentine film) to get into the restricted area of SIDE (the argentine intelligence agency).
* Indy does this in ''[[Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade (Film)|Indiana Jones and Thethe Last Crusade]]''.
* Subverted in ''[[The Matrix]]''. Neo is told to do this, but chokes when he sees the skinny ledge and great height.
* Maggie Carpenter does this in ''[[Runaway Bride (Filmfilm)|Runaway Bride]]'' to try and avoid getting caught snooping around the reporter's room.
* In ''[[The Naked Gun (Film)|The Naked Gun]]'', Frank Drebin does this. He needs to grab hold of the carvings of naked men and women to maintain his balance. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* A segment of the film ''Cat's Eye'' is based on [[Stephen King]]'s "The Ledge" (listed below).
* In ''[[The Man Who Knew Too Little (Film)|The Man Who Knew Too Little]]'', Lori escapes from Boris' hotel room this way. Wallace asks why they just don't use the hallway.
* Attempted in ''[[Fourteen Oh Eight1408]]''. The protagonist attempts to escape from the cursed room by climbing out the window and going to an adjacent room. Unfortunately for him {{spoiler|all the other rooms disappear from the wall of the hotel}}.
* In ''[[That Man From Rio]]'', Adrian tracks his kidnapped girlfriend Agnes to a hotel, where she's kept in one room in a suite with a gunman in the front room. Adrian gets around him by climbing out a corridor window and creeping along a high, narrow ledge to her room.
 
== [[Literature]] ==
* [[Alex Rider (Literature)|Alex Rider]] does this in ''Stormbreaker''
* The [[Stephen King]] short story "The Ledge" is a very slight variation on this, as the protagonist is forced to circumnavigate the building and return to the ''same'' window.
 
== [[Video Games]] ==
 
* In ''[[Left 4 Dead 2 (Video Game)|Left 4 Dead 2]]'', the survivors are forced to go out on the ledges of the Vannah Hotel to get around the fires.
* In ''[[Grim Fandango]]'', You climb out the window to get into the office next door.
* ''Amnesia: The Dark Descent''. You have to smash a window, then hop across balconies to reach an otherwise blocked-off room.
* In ''[[Paper Mario (Video Gamefranchise)|Paper Mario]]'', to get one of the badges, Mario has to enter one building, climb the stairs, exit through a window onto a ledge, go to the end of that ledge, hop to the next ledge, then enter through a ledge on that building... which has no visible street-level doors, even blocked or locked ones.
* Required frequently in ''[[Splinter Cell]]''.
* In ''[[Assassin's Creed (Video Game)|Assassin's Creed]]'' the only way to get into the local offices of the Assassins is to enter from the rooftop. Getting to that rooftop will often mandate some unconventional approaches.
* [[James Bond]] can sneak across a ledge to bypass most of the second mission in ''007 [[James Bond 007: Nightfire]]''. Unfortunately, there are windows on the wall with guards on the other side, so he has to be careful.
 
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