Raid

Raid, RAID or Raids may refer to:

Attack

• Raid (military), a sudden attack behind the enemy's lines without the intention of holding ground
• Corporate raid, a type of hostile takeover in business
• Panty raid, a prankish raid by male college students on the living quarters of female students to steal panties as trophies
• Police raid, a police action involving the entering of a house with the intent to capture personnel or evidence, often taking place early in the morning
• Union raid, when an outsider trade union takes over the membership of an existing union

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

• Raid (1947 film), an East German film
• Raid (2003 film), a 2003 Finnish film
• The Raid (2011 film), an Indonesian action and period crime thriller
  • The Raid 2, its 2014 sequel
• Raid (2018 film), an Indian period crime thriller by Raj Kumar Gupta
  • Raid 2 (2025 film), its sequel
• Raid (2023 film)

Computing

• RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks), a data storage technology providing redundancy

Gaming

• Raid (video games), a type of mission in a video game where a large number of people combine forces to defeat a powerful enemy
• Silent Assault, also known as Raid, a Nintendo Entertainment System title released by Sachen in 1989
• Raid over Moscow, a 1984 computer game re-released as Raid
• Raid: World War II, a 2017 computer game
• Raid: Shadow Legends, a 2018 mobile game
• Raid, in context of Twitch or other live streaming services, bringing a group of viewers from one channel to a target channel

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

• Raid (band), a Tennessee-based band, who helped pioneer the Vegan straight edge movement
• "Raid", a song by Lakeside on the album Untouchables
• R.A.I.D., a branch of the fictional Marvel Comics terrorist group Advanced Idea Mechanics

Sports

• Raid (boating), a leisure pursuit combining sailing and rowing
• Rally raid, a form of off-road motorsport
• Rebreather Association of International Divers, a dive training organization

People

• Johan Raid (1885–1964), Estonian politician and government minister
• Kaarin Raid (1942–2014), Estonian director, theatre pedagogue and actor
• Kaljo Raid (1921–2005), Estonian composer

Other uses

• RAID (French Police unit), Recherche, Assistance, Intervention, Dissuasion, an anti-terrorist unit of the French National Police
• Raid (insecticide), a consumer insecticide marketed by S. C. Johnson & Son
• Real-Time Adversarial Intelligence & Decision-making "RAID", a DARPA project to perform predictive analysis of enemy behavior
• RAID (in mental health), Reinforce Appropriate, Implode Disruptive, is a positive psychology least restrictive practice approach for working with people who exhibit challenging behavior
• Raids, Manche, France
• Risks, Assumptions, Issues and Dependencies, a project management technique called "RAID log"

See also

• The Raid (disambiguation)
• Raider (disambiguation)
• Raiding (disambiguation)
• Raid 2 (disambiguation)
• Raed (Arabic: Rā'id), a given name (including a list of people with the name)
• Raid dingue, a 2016 French comedy film