diff --git a/bigframes/dataframe.py b/bigframes/dataframe.py
index 101e7a1c5e..9cb388329e 100644
--- a/bigframes/dataframe.py
+++ b/bigframes/dataframe.py
@@ -576,6 +576,9 @@ def __getitem__(
         if isinstance(key, bigframes.series.Series):
             return self._getitem_bool_series(key)
 
+        if isinstance(key, slice):
+            return self.iloc[key]
+
         if isinstance(key, typing.Hashable):
             return self._getitem_label(key)
         # Select a subset of columns or re-order columns.
diff --git a/tests/system/small/test_dataframe.py b/tests/system/small/test_dataframe.py
index 452fa841e4..362d736aeb 100644
--- a/tests/system/small/test_dataframe.py
+++ b/tests/system/small/test_dataframe.py
@@ -221,6 +221,21 @@ def test_get_column_nonstring(scalars_dfs):
     assert_series_equal(bf_result, pd_result)
 
 
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "row_slice",
+    [
+        (slice(1, 7, 2)),
+        (slice(1, 7, None)),
+        (slice(None, -3, None)),
+    ],
+)
+def test_get_rows_with_slice(scalars_dfs, row_slice):
+    scalars_df, scalars_pandas_df = scalars_dfs
+    bf_result = scalars_df[row_slice].to_pandas()
+    pd_result = scalars_pandas_df[row_slice]
+    assert_pandas_df_equal(bf_result, pd_result)
+
+
 def test_hasattr(scalars_dfs):
     scalars_df, _ = scalars_dfs
     assert hasattr(scalars_df, "int64_col")