Raid
Appearance
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
- Raid (2018 film), an Indian period crime thriller
Gaming
- Raid (gaming), a type of mission in a video game where a 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
- Raid, in context of Twitch or other live streaming services, bringing a group of viewers 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
- Redundant array of independent disks, a data storage mechanism for improving performance and fault tolerance in computing systems
- Raids, Manche, France
- Risks, Assets, Issues and Decisions, a project management technique
See also
- Raed (Arabic: Rā'id), a given name (including a list of people with the name)
- Raider (disambiguation)
- Raiding (disambiguation)
- The Raid (disambiguation)