diff --git a/test/test_pymbolic.py b/test/test_pymbolic.py
index 95182c741f8479884d7b9af9b5d70bf9bd6783be..fe7c8a395b1ad433395d9e0771f6b833ca74884f 100644
--- a/test/test_pymbolic.py
+++ b/test/test_pymbolic.py
@@ -481,8 +481,8 @@ def test_unifier():
 
 
 def test_long_sympy_mapping():
+    sp = pytest.importorskip("sympy")
     from pymbolic.interop.sympy import SympyToPymbolicMapper
-    import sympy as sp
     SympyToPymbolicMapper()(sp.sympify(int(10**20)))
     SympyToPymbolicMapper()(sp.sympify(int(10)))