diff --git a/pytests/pyproject.toml b/pytests/pyproject.toml
index 920455ca871..126eaf77b09 100644
--- a/pytests/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pytests/pyproject.toml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ classifiers = [
 
 [project.optional-dependencies]
 dev = [
-    "gevent>=22.10.2",
+    "gevent>=22.10.2; implementation_name == 'cpython'",
     "hypothesis>=3.55",
     "pytest-asyncio>=0.21",
     "pytest-benchmark>=3.4",
diff --git a/pytests/tests/test_misc.py b/pytests/tests/test_misc.py
index 2f6cee6354e..6645f942f1a 100644
--- a/pytests/tests/test_misc.py
+++ b/pytests/tests/test_misc.py
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 import platform
 import sys
 
-import gevent
 import pyo3_pytests.misc
 import pytest
 
@@ -83,6 +82,8 @@ def __del__(self):
 
 
 def test_gevent():
+    gevent = pytest.importorskip("gevent")
+
     def worker(worker_id: int) -> None:
         for iteration in range(2):
             d = {"key": ArbitraryClass(worker_id, iteration)}