To provide a hoisting rope for an elevator surely preventing element wires constituting a strand, from projecting from the outer surface and considerably reducing a bending loss generated to a driving sheave or the like.

The hoisting rope 3 for suspending an elevator car 1 in a hoistway includes an inner layer body with inner layer strands 9 integrated by being coated with an inner layer coating 10, and an outer layer body provided along the longitudinal direction of the inner layer body to surround the circumference of the inner layer body and having a plurality of outer layer strands 12 integrated by being coated with an outer layer coating 13. The outer layer body is configured to be longitudinally movable relative to the inner layer body.