Raid

Raid or RAID 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

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

• Raid (1947 film), an East German film
• Raid (1991 film), a Malayalam film
• Raid (2003 film), a 2003 Finnish film
• Raid (2018 film), an Indian period crime thriller

Gaming

• Raid (gaming), a type of mission in a video game where a very large number of people combine forces to defeat a powerful enemy
• Raid (video game), 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

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 sail and oar adventure", a leisure pursuit combining sailing and rowing
• Rally raid, a form of off-road motorsport
• Rebreather Association of International Divers ("RAID"), a dive training organization

Technology

• Redundant array of inexpensive disks, a data storage mechanism for improving performance and fault tolerance on computing systems.

People with the name

• 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
• Risks, Assumptions, Issues and Dependencies log ("RAID log"), a document used in project management

See also

• Raed (Arabic: Rā'id), a given name (including a list of people with the name)
• Raider (disambiguation)
• The Raid (disambiguation)