diff --git a/.github/workflows/pythonapp.yaml b/.github/workflows/pythonapp.yaml
index f87bf351..0bb06769 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pythonapp.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pythonapp.yaml
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: List tox envs
         run: tox -l
       - name: Test with tox
-        run: tox -e duckdb_master,ibis --verbose
+        run: tox -e duckdb_master --verbose
         if: matrix.bleeding_edge
       - name: Test with tox
         run: tox --verbose
diff --git a/duckdb_engine/tests/test_ibis.py b/duckdb_engine/tests/test_ibis.py
deleted file mode 100644
index d9f9c03b..00000000
--- a/duckdb_engine/tests/test_ibis.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,44 +0,0 @@
-"""
-these are largely just smoke tests
-"""
-
-from csv import DictWriter
-from pathlib import Path
-from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
-
-from pytest import fixture, importorskip
-from sqlalchemy import text
-
-importorskip("ibis")
-
-if TYPE_CHECKING:
-    from ibis.backends.duckdb import Backend
-
-
-@fixture
-def ibis_conn() -> "Backend":
-    import ibis
-
-    return ibis.duckdb.connect()
-
-
-def test_csv(tmp_path: Path, ibis_conn: "Backend") -> None:
-    path = tmp_path / "test.csv"
-    with path.open("w") as fh:
-        cfh = DictWriter(fh, ["mean"])
-        cfh.writeheader()
-        cfh.writerow({"mean": 6})
-
-    ibis_conn.register(f"csv://{path}")
-
-
-def test_pandas(ibis_conn: "Backend") -> None:
-    pandas = importorskip("pandas")
-    df = pandas.DataFrame({"mean": [6]})
-    ibis_conn.register(df)
-
-
-def test_method_call(ibis_conn: "Backend") -> None:
-    importorskip("pyarrow")
-    with ibis_conn._safe_raw_sql(text("select 1")) as cursor:
-        cursor.cursor.fetch_record_batch()
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 9def8616..f4370337 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -35,11 +35,6 @@ require_poetry = True
 commands =
     mypy .
 
-[testenv:ibis]
-commands =
-    pip install ibis-framework[duckdb]
-    pytest --junitxml=results.xml --cov --cov-report xml:coverage.xml --verbose -rs -k ibis
-
 [gh-actions]
 python =
     3.7: py37-{duckdb040,duckdb051,duckdb061,duckdb071,duckdb081}-sqlalchemy{13,14,20}