- Rocket (disambiguation)
Rocket refers to a vehicle, missile, or aircraft that creates thrust by expelling burned fuel as exhaust at a high rate.It can also refer to a
rocket engine .Rocket may also refer to:
;In media:
*Rocket (comics) , a DC Comics character
*"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
*"The Rocket" (film), a movie about the life of ice hockey's Maurice Richard
*, a video game by Sucker Punch Productions
*Rocket (Buscapé) , the protagonist and narrator in the Brazilian film "City of God"
*"Rocket", the code-name of the game engine forAge of Empires III
*MP3 Rocket , a peer-to-peer based file sharing (P2P) client for the Java Platform
*Rocket, a character inGalactik Football ;In music and dance:
*Rocket (band) , an American all-girl pop-punk band formed in 2005
*"Rocket" (album), an album by the band Primitive Radio Gods
*"Rocket" (Def Leppard song), a song by Def Leppard
*"Rocket" (The Smashing Pumpkins song), a song by The Smashing Pumpkins
*"Rockets", a song by Cat Power from her 1995 album "Dear Sir "
*Rocket Records , a record label
*TheRockettes , a dance company
*Rockit , a Herbie Hancock song
*TheRockit Hong Kong Music Festival ;People:
*Charles Rocket People nicknamed "Rocket" include:
*Matt Bonner , a basketball player, a.k.a. the "Red Rocket"
*Pavel Bure , an ice hockey player, a.k.a. the "Russian Rocket"
*Roger Clemens , a baseball pitcher
*Owen Hart , a professional wrestler
*Raghib Ismail , a former professional American football player, in both the Canadian Football League and National Football League
*Rod Laver , Australian tennis player
*Ronnie O'Sullivan , a snooker player
*Rikki Rockett , stage name of the drummer for the rock band Poison
*Maurice Richard , a former ice hockey player whose nickname was "the Rocket"
*Henri Richard , a former ice hockey player (brother of Maurice), a.k.a. the "Pocket Rocket"
*Ryan Newman , a NASCAR driver who is referred as "The Rocket" when he qualifies on the pole.
*Robert Romano , a fictional general surgeon on the TV series ER.;Plants:
*Eruca sativa , a leafy vegetable known in vernacular as a "rocket"
*London Rocket , a herbal plant in the family Brassicaceae;In sports::"See also "People" above."
*Houston Rockets , an NBA team
*Kelowna Rockets , a Western Hockey League team
*P.E.I. Rocket , a Quebec Major Junior Hockey League team
*Toledo Rockets , the athletic teams of theUniversity of Toledo ;In rail transport:
* Various passenger trains operated by theChicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad .
*Stephenson's Rocket , an early steam locomotive which won theRainhill Trials .
* Rocket, aSouth Devon Railway Comet class steam locomotive.
*"Ride the Rocket" is a slogan for theToronto Transit Commission .;Other:
*Rocket stove , variety of wood-burning stove
*Rocket (Beanie Baby), a Beanie Baby blue jay produced by Ty, Inc. in 1998
*Smarties (Ce De Candy) , a sugar candy, known as Rockets outside the US
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