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Raptor or RAPTOR may refer to:
Animals
- Raptor (bird), bird of prey, bird that hunts and feeds on other animals
- Raptor- or -raptor, affixes used in taxonomy to describe dromeosaurs or similar animals
- Dromaeosauridae, the raptor family of dinosaurs, that includes both Velociraptor and Deinonychus
- Deinonychus, a larger cousin of Velociraptor, upon which the raptors featured prominently in the Jurassic Park franchise were primarily based
- Velociraptor, a genus of small dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur and cousin of Deinonychus
Arts and entertainment
Fictional entities
- Raptor (Battlestar Galactica), a military spacecraft in the Battlestar Galactica universe
- Raptor (G.I. Joe), a Cobra character in the G.I. Joe universe
- Raptor (Marvel Comics), three fictional characters in the Marvel Comics universe
- Raptor, a character in the XTNCT comic strip
- Lord Raptor, a character in the Darkstalkers series of fighting games
- Raptor heavy fighter, a starfighter in the Wing Commander universe
- Rex Raptor, a Yu-Gi-Oh! character
Films
- Raptor (film), a 2001 made-for-television horror film
- Raptor Island, a Sci Fi original film about an island in the South China Sea, that debuted on the Sci Fi Channel on August 21, 2004
- Planet Raptor, a 2007 science-fiction made-for-television film directed by Gary Jones; the sequel to Raptor Island
- Raptor Ranch (also known as The Dinosaur Experiment), a 2012 science fiction action adventure horror comedy film
Literature
- Raptor (novel), written by Gary Jennings
- The Raptor Zone, the 12th book in Gwen Moffat's Miss Pink series
Gaming
- Raptor convention, a contract bridge convention
- Raptor: Call of the Shadows, a 1994 vertical scrolling shoot-'em-up video game
Music
- Raptor (Thai duo), a Thai pop duo consisting of two boys, Joni Anwar (also known as Joni Raptor) and Louis Scott
- Raptor, a series of electric guitar produced by Peavey Guitars
Roller coasters
- Raptor (Cedar Point), an inverted roller coaster at Cedar Point amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio, United States
- Raptor (Fantasilandia), a roller coaster in Fantasilandia, Chile
- Raptor (Gardaland), a wing roller coaster at Gardaland amusement park in Italy
Enterprises
- Raptor Computing Systems, a company which sells computers with POWER9 processors
- Raptor Engineering, an OpenPOWER Foundation member and coreboot contractor
Military
- RAPTOR, a reconnaissance pod carried by the RAF Tornado aircraft
- HSM-71, a U.S. Navy helicopter squadron, known by the nickname "The Raptors"
- Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor, a United States Air Force stealth fighter aircraft
- VMMT-204, United States Marine Corps Osprey training squadron, known by the nickname "The Raptors"
Raptor (bird) organizations
Science and technology
Computers and programming
- Raptor (programming language), visual programming language for developing executable flowcharts
- Raptor (robot), a bipedal robot which was designed and conceived in 2014
- RAPTOR (software), software which provides 3D protein structure prediction for drug discovery researchers
- Gecko (software), an open source layout engine originally released as Raptor
- Raptor code, a certain type of rateless error correcting code
- Raptor conservation, efforts to counteract concerns are threats affecting the population viability of birds of prey
- Raptor RDF, a parser and serializer from the Redland RDF Application Framework
- WD Raptor, a high-performance hard disk drive from Western Digital
Engines and vehicles
Air and space
- Raptor (rocket engine family), rocket engine being developed by SpaceX for super-heavy lift Starship launch vehicle
- Raptor prototype upper-stage engine, a rocket engine prototype being developed by SpaceX for Falcon 9/Falcon Heavy-class vehicle, based on the above family
- Aviate Raptor, a South African two-seat ultralight trike
- Independence Raptor, a German paraglider design
- Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor, a United States Air Force stealth fighter aircraft
- Raptor Aircraft Raptor, an advanced high-speed 5-seat single-engined canard-wing kitbuilt light aircraft
- Skif Raptor, a Ukrainian paraglider design
Land
- Ford Raptor, a pickup truck
- Raptor 125 and 1000, motorbikes built by Cagiva
- Raptor 660, an ATV 4-wheel motorcycle produced by Yamaha
- Zagato Raptor, a concept car design created in 1996 by Zagato in partnership with Alain Wicki for Lamborghini
Sea
- Raptor-class, a design of car ferry used by Red Funnel to cross the Solent
Sport
- Toronto Raptors, a National Basketball Association team based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Raptors 905, an NBA G League team affiliated with the Toronto Raptors based in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
- Colorado Raptors, an American rugby union team for Major League Rugby based in Glendale, Colorado
- Dunkin' Raptors, a Thai basketball team
- Raptor, a downhill ski course adjacent to Birds of Prey in Beaver Creek, Colorado, US
- Bengaluru Raptors, a Premier Badminton League team based in the city of Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Ogden Raptors, an American professional baseball team in the Pioneer League based in Ogden, Utah
- Raptors Naucalpan, a Mexican gridiron football team based in Naucalpan, Mexico
- Bangalore Raptors, a defunct Champions Tennis League team in 2014 that was based in the city of Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Everett Raptors, a defunct professional indoor football team based in Everett, Washington
- Lancashire Raptors, a defunct British ice hockey team based in Blackburn, Lancashire
- Rockford Raptors, a defunct American professional soccer team based in Rockford, Illinois; currently a U8-U19 boys & girls soccer club
See also
- Bird of prey (disambiguation)
- Rapt (disambiguation)
- Rapture (disambiguation)
- RPTOR (gene), human gene for the KIAA1303 adapter protein
- Velociraptor (disambiguation)
- All pages with titles beginning with Raptor
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