Raider

Raider

A raider or raiders can refer to those who participate in a military raid or to:

in Food:
* Space Raiders, brand of crisps

in sports organizations:
* Adelaide Raiders, football (soccer) club in Adelaide, South Australia
* Rochester Raiders, CIFL team based in Rochester, New York, USA
* Canberra Raiders, National Rugby League team based in Canberra, Australia
* Oakland Raiders, National Football League team based in Oakland, California, USA
* Texas Tech Red Raiders, NCAA Division I team from Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, USA. The women's basketball team is called the "Lady Raiders"
* Utica Raiders (originally the Lincoln Raiders), semi-professional American football in Utica, NY, USA in the 1940s and 1950s
* Wodonga Raiders Football Club, football (soccer) club in Wodonga, Australia

in military organizations:

* Batalyon Raiders, special forces unit of the Indonesian military
* Marine Raiders, elite unit established by the United States Marine Corps during World War II
* Quantrill's Raiders, Confederate guerrillas in the American Civil War
* Raider (piracy), people who commit robbery at the sea
* Tarleton's Raiders, unit of British dragoons active during the American Revolution

in military vehicles:

* Great Eastern Islamic Raiders' Front, Turkish terrorist organisation
* Merchant raider, type of ship in naval warfare
* Commerce raider, type of warship in naval warfare
* "Dark Eldar raider", type of anti-gravity transport used in the game "Warhammer 40,000"
* GAT-X370 Raider Gundam, second generation Earth Alliance mobile suit from Gundam SEED

in video games:

* "Battle Realms", RTS game feature East Asia with the Raiders as 2 tier units of the Serpent Clan
* "Star Raiders", computer game for the Atari video game system
* "Tomb Raider Series", series of video games, comic books, movies, animations and novels
* "Ace Combat", Playstation and Xbox 360 based RPG and the Raiders are a gaming clan for non-online Multiplayer competition

in books
* Raider (novel), book by Susan Gates

in movies:

* "", 2001 film based on the game
* "", 2003 sequel
* "Raiders of the Lost Ark", original name for the first Indiana Jones movie

in television:

* "Raiders of the Lost Harp", episode of "DuckTales"
* Cylon Raider, basic Cylon fighter craft in "Battlestar Galactica"

in other people and organizations:

* Paul Revere & the Raiders, American rock band
* Tusken Raiders (aka Sand People), fictional creatures in the "Star Wars" saga
* Turanic Raiders, race of space pirates from the strategy game "Homeworld"
* Raider (Babylon 5), space pirates from "Babylon 5"in school mascots:

* Raider (Benjamin Logan High School)
* Raider (Billy Ryan High School)
* Raider (Brownell-Talbot School)
* Raider (Crescent Valley High School)
* Raider (Delhi District Secondary School)
* Raider (East Peoria Community High School)
* Raider (Edward C. Reed High School)
* Raider Githen middle school, (Durham Public Schools)
* Raider (Glenbard South High School)
* Raider (Good Hope High School)
* Raider (Gulliver Preparatory School)
* Raider (Horseheads High School)
* Raider (John A. Rowland High School)
* Raider (John I. Burton High School, Norton, Virginia)
* Raider (Leonardtown High School)
* Raider (Loudoun County High School)
* Raider (Lumberton High School)
* Raider (Mabelvale Magnet Middle School)
* Raider (Middletown Area School District)
* Raider (Nathan Hale High School)
* Raider (Northwest Florida State College)
* Raider (Pierce College)
* Raider (Pine High School)
* Raider (Radnor High School)
* Raider (Riverwood High School)
* Raider (Scoth Plains-Fanwood School District)
* Raider (Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania)
* Raider (Silver Creek High School San Jose, CA)
* Raider (Southeast Whitfield High School)
* Raider (South Sumter High School, Bushnell, Florida)
* Raider (Thomas Jefferson High School, Federal Way, Washington)
* Raider (Warren East High School in Bowling Green,Ky)
* Raider (Wellesley High School)
* Raider (Wylie East High School)in other uses:

* "Raider", the old name for Twix in some European countries


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