Air (disambiguation)

Air is the name given to the Earth's atmosphere used in breathing and photosynthesis.

Air may also refer to:

Music

• Air (music), a song-like vocal or instrumental composition
  • Air on the G String, August Wilhelmj's adaptation of an air by Johann Sebastian Bach
• Air de cour, secular vocal music in France in the late Renaissance and early Baroque period
• Associated Independent Recording (AIR), an audio recording facility based in London

Songs

• "A.I.R.", a song by Anthrax from Spreading the Disease
• "Air", a song by Talking Heads from Fear of Music

Albums

• Air (Cecil Taylor album), 1960
• Air (Kym album), 2005
• Air (Agua de Annique album), 2007
• Air (Andreas Vollenweider album), 2009

Artists

• Air (French band), a French electronic music duo
• Air (Japanese band), a Japanese band
• Air (jazz group), a jazz trio founded in 1971
• Air (1970s band), 1970s American rock band
• All India Radio (band), an Australian electronic band

Literature

• Air (comics), a comic book series published by the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics
• Air (novel), a 2005 novel by Geoff Ryman

Videogames

• Air (1977 video game), an air combat based mainframe computer game
• Air (visual novel), a 2000 Japanese visual novel
  • Air (visual novel), a 2000 anime adaption
  • Air (film), a 2005 adaptation of the visual novel
• Art Is Resistance, an organization in the Year Zero

Other

• "Air" (Stargate Universe), series premiere of the television series Stargate Universe
• Air/Love is destructive, the first half of The End of Evangelion, a 1997 anime film.
• Air (classical element)
• MacBook Air, an Apple laptop
• A range of boardsport tricks consisting of jumps without rotation
• Aïr Mountains, a massif in northern Niger
• The Sultanate of Aïr, or Sultanate of Agadez, a monarchy in the Aïr Mountains between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries
• Air conditioning, any form of cooling, heating, ventilation or disinfection that modifies the condition of air
• Air, a common colloquialism for a broadcast
• "Airs" above the ground, a term used in dressage
• Nickname of Michael Jordan, American basketball player
  • Air Jordan, a popular brand of basketball shoes promoted by Michael Jordan
• Nickname of Steve McNair, American football player
• Donna Air, British actress
• Air (roller coaster), a flying roller coaster at Alton Towers theme park in the United Kingdom
• Air-to-air rocket or air interception rocket, an unguided projectile fired from aircraft to engage other flying targets
• Airbles railway station (National Rail code), in Motherwell, Scotland
• AIR (program), a program suite for medical image registration
• AIR (nightclub), a 2000 capacity superclub located in Digbeth, Birmingham in the UK

Initialisms

• ABS-CBN International Report, a defunct international newscast of ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation
• Adelaide International Raceway, a permanent circuit owned by Australian Motorsport Club Limited under the auspices of the Bob Jane Corporation
• Adobe Integrated Runtime or Adobe AIR, a runtime environment for rich Internet applications
• Air injection reactor, a very early automobile emissions control system
• AIR-X, USSR aircraft series by Yakovlev, stands for Alexei Rykov, one of the communist leaders
• All India Radio, radio broadcast service in India
• Aminoimidazole ribotide
• Annals of Improbable Research, a bi-monthly magazine devoted to scientific humour
• Anterior interval release, a type of arthroscopic knee surgery
• Art International Radio, an arts-oriented radio station
• Average issue readership, a statistic used by National Readership Survey to measure the readership of a magazine.[1]
• the New York Stock Exchange ticker symbol for AAR Corporation

See also

• Aire (disambiguation)
• AIRS (disambiguation)
• Ayr (disambiguation)
• Ayre, one of six sheadings in the Isle of Man
• Éire