Body pulling
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Body pulling is a method of pulling that relies on walking into a mob's aggro radius, instead of the more common method, dealing damage to it with an attack. This method leads to the mob noticing you and comes running for you (or starts firing or casting from a range if it has ranged attacks).
Body pulling offers a tactical benefit: This causes almost no threat, and is less likely to pull other nearby mobs compared to using damage. As such, it is possible to separate some groups with body pulls where any form of damage-based pulling would pull the entire group.
One difficulty with executing such body pulls is that it takes a while for mobs to react to you being in their aggro range. If you just keep walking ahead until something happens, chances are that you have actually placed yourself in the aggro range of yet another mob (an "add") which will trigger shortly after you notice the first one coming for you.
Tanks attempting a tricky pull with body pulling will commonly take a few quick steps ahead and then retreat and wait to see if the mob noticed. If there was no reaction, the procedure is repeated, only slightly farther ahead than the previous time. This takes good reactions, eye-hand coordination, and patience.