Racer

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Racer or The Racer or Racers may refer to:

Snakes

• Any of several genera of colubrid snakes, such as Coluber; Drymobius, the neotropical racers; Masticophis, the whip snakes or coachwhips; and Alsophis
• Galapagos racer (Pseudalsophis biserialis), endemic to the Galapagos Islands

Entertainment

• The Racer, 1953 novel by Hans Ruesch
• The Racers, 1955 film based on the Hans Ruesch novel
• "The Racer", 1958 story by Ib Melchior, base of the 1975 film Death Race 2000
• Star Wars Episode I: Racer, a video game
• The Racer, pilot film of Straightaway, starring Brian Kelly and John Ashley.
• Racer (simulator), a free racing simulator available online
• The Racer (Kennywood), a wooden racing roller coaster at Kennywood Park
• The Racer (Kings Island), a wooden racing roller coaster at Kings Island
• The Racer, 82m water slide at Big Banana, Coff's Coast
• Racer, a former wooden roller coaster that was one of Cedar Point's attractions, in Sandusky, Ohio

Aircraft

• Hughes H-1 Racer, "The Racer", a racing aircraft first flown in 1935
• AMSOIL Racer, a 1980s racing aircraft
• Bristol Racer, a British racing monoplane, first flown in 1922
• Brown B-1 Racer, an American 1930s racing monoplane
• Brown B-2 Racer, an American racing monoplane built in 1934
• Dayton-Wright Racer, an American racing monoplane first flown in 1920
• Graham-Perren Racer, a racing aircraft built to compete in the 1934 National Air Races
• Napier-Heston Racer, a 1940s British racing monoplane
• Powell PH Racer, a 1920s racing aircraft
• Verville-Packard R-1 Racer, the first racing aircraft built for the United States Army Air Corps, first flown in 1919
• Verville-Sperry R-3 Racer, a racing monoplane first flown in 1922
• Westland Racer, a British racing monoplane first flown in 1926
• Air Creation Racer, a French ultralight trike design
• Apollo Racer GT, a Hungarian ultralight trike design
• Corvus Racer 540, a Hungarian high performance aerobatic aircraft

Ships

• HMS Racer, various Royal Navy ships
• Racer-class sloop, a class of five ships built for the Royal Navy between 1855 and 1860
• USS Racer, two US Navy ships

In sports

• Racer Arena, a multi-purpose arena in Murray, Kentucky, home of the Murray State University women's volleyball team
• The Racer's Group, a Rolex Sports Car Series racing team located in Petaluma, California
• Racer (magazine), an automobile racing magazine

Other uses

• LZR Racer, a line of high-end Speedo swimsuits
• ZTE Racer, a mobile phone manufactured by China's ZTE Corporation
• Daewoo LeMans, a compact car sold as the Daewoo Racer in some markets
• RACER Trust, created as part of the General Motors bankruptcy proceedings to dispose of the company's abandoned real estate
• Racer, original name of one of the GWR 3031 Class locomotives that were built for and run on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915, renamed Glenside in 1911

See also

• RACER IV, a component of several of the first hydrogen bombs made by the United States during the 1950s
• Racers (disambiguation)