Rocket (disambiguation)

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A rocket is a vehicle, missile, or aircraft propelled by an engine that creates thrust from a high speed exhaust jet made exclusively from propellant.

Rocket or Rockets may also refer to:

Projectiles

• Rocket (weapon), an unguided, powered weapon
• Rocket (firework), a firework that propels itself into the air in order to fly

Arts and entertainment

• Rocket Comics, a title published by Maple Leaf Publishing
• Rocket: Robot on Wheels, a 1999 video game by Sucker Punch Productions
• "The Rocket" (short story), a 1950 science fiction short story by Ray Bradbury
• The Rocket (Slippery Rock), a weekly newspaper published by the students of Slippery Rock University
• The Rocket (newspaper), a defunct weekly newspaper in Seattle, Washington and Portland, Oregon
• Rocket, a character in the animated series Little Einsteins
• Rocket, a rare card found in Supercell's Clash Royale

Military

• HMS Rocket, eight ships of the Royal Navy and one planned ship
• Operation Rocket, a British Second World War Club Run supplying aircraft to the besieged island of Malta

Music

• The Rocket Record Company, a record label founded by Elton John

Sports teams

• Bayi Rockets, a team in the Chinese Basketball Association
• Chicago Rockets, a team in the All-America Football Conference from 1946 to 1949
• Dundee Rockets, a defunct ice hockey club that was based in Dundee, Scotland
• Houston Rockets, a National Basketball Association team
• Jacksonville Rockets, an Eastern Hockey League team from 1964 to 1972
• Kelowna Rockets, a Canadian Western Hockey League team
• Montreal Rocket, a Quebec Major Junior Hockey League team from 1999 to 2003
• Oettinger Rockets, a German basketball team
• P.E.I. Rocket, a Quebec Major Junior Hockey League team
• Philadelphia Rockets, an American Hockey League team of the 1940s
• Reading Rockets, a team in the English Basketball League
• Rye House Rockets, an English speedway team
• Strathroy Rockets, a Canadian Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League team based in Strathroy, Ontario
• Tacoma Rockets, a junior ice hockey team in the Western Hockey League from 1991 to 1995
• Tacoma Rockets (PCHL and WHL), a professional ice hockey team in Tacoma, Washington, from 1946 to 1953
• Toledo Rockets, the athletic teams of the University of Toledo
• Toronto Rockets (soccer team), an American Professional Soccer League team for the 1994 season, based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Transportation

• Dynamic Sport Rocket, a Polish paramotor design (internal combustion powered with propeller, not a rocket)
• Stephenson's Rocket, also known as The Rocket, an early steam locomotive (1829)
• Rocket, several passenger trains operated by the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad
  • Rock Island Rockets (1937), lightweight diesel-electric passenger trains
• Rocket, a South Devon Railway Comet class steam locomotive
• Toronto Rocket (Toronto subway car), the newest articulated subway fleet for the Toronto Transit Commission's subway system; Toronto's streetcar fleet have been called Red Rockets since the 1970s.
• Oldsmobile V8 engine

People

• Rocket (nickname)
• Owen Hart (1965–1999), Canadian professional wrestler with the ring name "The Rocket"
• Charles Rocket (1949–2005), stage name of American actor Charles Adams Claverie
• Rockets Redglare (1949–2001), stage name of American actor Michael Morra
• Rocket, stage name for Evan Dollard from the 2008 American Gladiators TV series

Plants

• Rocket (plant) (Eruca sativa), a leafy vegetable
• Diplotaxis tenuifolia (wild rocket), a leafy vegetable cultivated for its spicy flavoured leaves
• Sisymbrium irio (London Rocket), a herbal plant in the family Brassicaceae
• Hesperis matronalis (Dame's Rocket), a wildflower native to Eurasia, now widely cultivated in many other areas of the world
• Blue rocket, another name for aconitum
• Reseda luteola (dyer's rocket), a plant that makes a yellow dye

Other uses

• Johnny Rockets, an American restaurant franchise
• Rockets (candy), a fruit-flavored sugar candy known as Smarties in the United States
• Rocket eBook, e-reader produced by NuvoMedia in late 1998
• Rocket Internet, a startup incubator

See also

• Rocket immunoelectrophoresis, a biochemical method for determining protein concentration
• Rockett (disambiguation)
• Rockettes (disambiguation)
• Rockit (disambiguation)
• Roquet (disambiguation)
• Roquetes (disambiguation)
• Roquette (disambiguation)
• Roquettes