Terror (disambiguation)

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Terror is a great fear characterized by an emotional response to threats or danger, either real or imagined.

Terror(s) may also refer to:

Geography

• Mount Terror (Antarctica)
• Mount Terror (Washington), United States

People

• Terror, a rapper featured on a track from the album My World, My Way
• The Duke of Dorchester known as the Golden Terror (born 1945), early stage name for American wrestler Pete Doherty

Arts, entertainment and media

History and politics

• Terror (politics), a policy of political repression and violence
• "The Great Terror" or "Great Purge", a period (1937–1938) of mass political repression in the Soviet Union
• The Terror or Reign of Terror, the period between June 1793 and the end of July 1794, when there were 16,594 official death sentences in France

Ships

• HMS Terror, several ships of the Royal Navy
• Spanish destroyer Terror, a ship that fought in the Spanish–American War
• USS Terror, several ships of the United States Navy

Sports teams

• Houston Thunderbears, an Arena Football League team originally called the Texas Terror
• Tampa Bay Terror, a defunct indoor soccer team based in Tampa Bay, Florida, United States

Other uses

• Horror and terror, literary and psychological concepts, especially in Gothic literature
• Night terror, also known as sleep terror, a sleep disorder causing feelings of terror or dread, and typically occurs during the first hours of stage 3-4 non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep

See also

• All pages beginning with Terror
• Red Terror (disambiguation)
• Terroir, the influence of local growing conditions on the taste of wine or other food or drink
• Terrorism
• The Terror (disambiguation)
• White Terror (disambiguation)