Floater (disambiguation)

A floater is a shadow-like shape that appears singly or together with several others in the field of vision of some individuals.

Floater may also mean:

* Floater (band), a band based in Portland, Oregon
*Floater (alien), a race of enemy aliens in the X-COM computer game "UFO Defense"
*Floating rate note, in finance, a floating-rate bond, or a bond whose coupon rates are reset periodically according to a specified benchmark (e.g. LIBOR)
*A type of insurance policy that covers property at one or more locations, often in transit.
*Also a term for an company employee without a permanent assigned location, who travels from branch to branch and fills in where he or she is needed. Frequently found in banks. A related term is a K-12 teacher who is not assigned a particular classroom but instead travels from classroom to classroom in order to teach classes.
*The Floaters, an R&B singing group of the 1970s
*Floaters (Web series) an internet-only sitcom series launched in 2006
*Floater, a skill that can be used in the video game Lemmings
* Floater, an object that floats on a liquid surface due to Archimedes' principle; sometimes used in reference to a corpse found in a body of water or a turd left in a swimming pool or unflushed toilet.
* Floater, a term used in some universities to describe a course that can be taken outside the degree requirement and does not have to be related with the degree which is pursued by the student.(e.g.: a language for students of economics)
*Floater, a mutant creature in the Fallout computer game
*Floaters, animals which postpone their breeding in order to possibly obtain a higher fitness later on, and thus do not have a territory of their own.