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

Computing

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

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 (RAID), a data storage mechanism for improving performance and fault tolerance in computing systems
  • Raids, Manche, France
  • Risks, Assumptions, Issues and Dependencies, a project management technique called "RAID log"

See also

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