Rocket (disambiguation)

A rocket is a vehicle, missile, or aircraft propelled by an engine that creates thrust from a high speed exhaust jet made exclusively from propellant.

Rocket or Rockets may also refer to:

Projectiles

• Rocket (weapon), an unguided, powered weapon
• Rocket (firework), a firework that propels itself into the air in order to fly

Arts and entertainment

• Rocket Comics, a title published by Maple Leaf Publishing
• Rocket: Robot on Wheels, a 1999 video game by Sucker Punch Productions
• "The Rocket" (short story), a 1950 science fiction short story by Ray Bradbury
• Rocket, the code-name of the game engine for Age of Empires III
• The Rocket (Slippery Rock), a weekly newspaper published by the students of Slippery Rock University
• The Rocket (newspaper), a defunct weekly newspaper in Seattle, Washington and Portland, Oregon

Film

• The Rocket (2005 film), a film about the life of ice hockey's Maurice Richard
• The Rocket (2013 film), a 2013 Australian film
• Rocket (2015 film), a 2015 Indian film
• Rocket (Buscapé), the protagonist and narrator in the Brazilian film City of God

Military

• HMS Rocket, eight ships of the Royal Navy and one planned ship
• Operation Rocket, a British Second World War Club Run supplying aircraft to the besieged island of Malta

Music

• The Rocket Record Company, a record label founded by Elton John

Bands

• Rocket (band), an American all-girl pop-punk band formed in 2005
• The Rockets (band), an American rock band from Detroit
• The Rockets (Los Angeles band), pre-Crazy Horse
• Rockets (band), a French space rock band formed in 1972 (a.k.a. Les Rockets)
• The Rockets, a Louisiana band featuring Dick Holler
• The Rockets, 1950s British rock and roll group led by Tony Crombie
• The Rockets, Kansas City big band led by Harlan Leonard, founded in 1937

Albums

• Rocket (album), a 1996 album by the band Primitive Radio Gods
• The Rockets (album), by the Los Angeles band
• Rockets (Rockets album), by French band
• Rockets (Daniel Lanois album), 2005

Songs

• "Rocket" (Beyoncé song), 2013
• "Rocket" (Def Leppard song), 1987
• "Rocket" (El Presidente song), 2005
• "Rocket" (Goldfrapp song), 2010
• "Rocket" (Mohamed Ali song), 2009
• "Rocket" (The Smashing Pumpkins song), 1993
• "Rocket", a 1990 song by Susumu Hirasawa from his album The Ghost in Science
• "Rocket", a 1998 song by The Jesus and Mary Chain as a B-side to the single "Cracking Up"
• "Rocket", a 2002 song by Yellowcard from their EP The Underdog EP
• "Rocket", a 2011 song by The Wanted from their album Battleground
• "Rocket", a 2013 song by A Friend in London from their album Unite
• "Rockets", a 1981 song by Joe Walsh from his album There Goes the Neighborhood
• "Rockets", a 2008 song by Simple Minds from their album Graffiti Soul

Sports teams

• Bayi Rockets, a team in the Chinese Basketball Association
• Chicago Rockets, a team in the All-America Football Conference from 1946 to 1949
• Dundee Rockets, a defunct ice hockey club that was based in Dundee, Scotland
• Houston Rockets, a National Basketball Association team
• Jacksonville Rockets, an Eastern Hockey League team from 1964 to 1972
• Kelowna Rockets, a Canadian Western Hockey League team
• Montreal Rocket, a Quebec Major Junior Hockey League team from 1999 to 2003
• P.E.I. Rocket, a Quebec Major Junior Hockey League team
• Philadelphia Rockets, an American Hockey League team of the 1940s
• Reading Rockets, a team in the English Basketball League
• Rye House Rockets, an English speedway team
• Strathroy Rockets, a Canadian Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League team based in Strathroy, Ontario
• Tacoma Rockets, a junior ice hockey team in the Western Hockey League from 1991 to 1995
• Tacoma Rockets (PCHL and WHL), a professional ice hockey team in Tacoma, Washington, from 1946 to 1953
• Toledo Rockets, the athletic teams of the University of Toledo
• Toronto Rockets (soccer team), an American Professional Soccer League team for the 1994 season, based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Transportation

• Dynamic Sport Rocket, a Polish paramotor design
• Stephenson's Rocket, also known as The Rocket, an early steam locomotive (1829)
• Rocket, several passenger trains operated by the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad
  • Rock Island Rockets (1937), lightweight diesel-electric passenger trains
• Rocket, a South Devon Railway Comet class steam locomotive
• Toronto Rocket (Toronto subway car), the newest articulated subway fleet for the Toronto Transit Commission's subway system
• Oldsmobile V8 engine

People

• Rocket (nickname)
• Owen Hart (1965–1999), professional wrestler with the ring name "The Rocket"
• Charles Rocket (1949–2005), stage name of American actor Charles Adams Claverie
• Rockets Redglare (1949–2001), stage name of American actor Michael Morra

Fictional characters

• Rocky the Flying Squirrel (Rocket J. Squirrel), a main character in the American animated television series The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show
• Rocket (comics), a DC Comics character
• Rocket Raccoon, a fictional character, of Marvel Comics
• Team Rocket, a fictional villainous team from the Pokémon franchise

Other uses

• Johnny Rockets, an American restaurant franchise
• Rocket (plant) (Eruca sativa), a leafy vegetable
• Rockets (wafer candy), a fruit-flavored sugar candy known as Smarties in the United States
• Rocket Internet, a startup incubator; see List of venture capital firms

See also

• Diplotaxis tenuifolia (wild rocket), a leafy vegetable cultivated for its spicy flavoured leaves
• Sisymbrium irio (London Rocket), a herbal plant in the family Brassicaceae
• Hesperis matronalis (Dame's Rocket), a wildflower native to Eurasia, now widely cultivated in many other areas of the world
• Blue rocket, another name for aconitum
• Rocket immunoelectrophoresis, a biochemical method for determining protein concentration
• Rikki Rockett (born 1961), stage name of the drummer for the rock band Poison
• The Rockettes, a dance company
• "Rockit", a 1983 Herbie Hancock song
• Rockit Hong Kong Music Festival
• Roquet (disambiguation)
• Roquetes (disambiguation)
• Roquettes