Colossus

The original meaning of the word colossus is an exceptionally large statue.

Colossus may refer to:

Statues

• Any exceptionally large statue such as:
  • Colossus of Rhodes, a giant statue of Helios, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
  • Colossus of Nero, a bronze statue of the Emperor Nero
  • Colossus of Barletta, a giant statue of an unidentified Roman emperor
  • Colossus of Constantine, a giant bronze and marble statue of Constantine the Great
  • Colossi of Memnon, two massive stone statues of Pharaoh Amenhotep III
  • Statue of Liberty, a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, designed by Frédéric Bartholdi and dedicated on October 28, 1886
  • The Motherland Calls, a 1967 statue in Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd, Russia commemorating the Battle of Stalingrad
  • The 12 Jin Ren 12 Colossi made by the order of Shihuangdi
  • "Leonardo's horse" or Gran Cavallo, a giant, unfinished statue of a horse by Leonardo da Vinci

Media

• Colossus (Scorn album)
• Colossus (Walt Mink album), 1997
• Colossus (comics), a superhero in the X-Men comic book series
• Colossus (novel), a 1966 science fiction novel by D. F. Jones about a computer that takes over the world
  • Colossus: The Forbin Project, a 1970 film based on the Jones novel
• Colossus (collection), a collection of science fiction short stories by Donald Wandrei
• "Colossus", a Canadian movie theater brand owned by Cineplex Entertainment
• "Colossus", a song from Quintessence
• "Colossus", a song by the Afro Celt Sound System from the album Volume 3: Further in Time
• Colossus Crosswords Magazine, a monthly crossword magazine published by Lovatts Publications

Computing

• Colossus computer, the first programmable digital electronic computer, used for code breaking in World War II
• "Colossus", a computer program developed for NASA's Project Apollo
• Colossus Chess, a 1990 series of chess-playing programs
• Colossus, the codename for a new version of the Google File System

Video games

• The first Boss fight of the video game God of War II set in ancient Greece
• The eponymous enemies in the Shadow of the Colossus video game
• The Colossus, the name of a Space Pirate ship from the game Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
• GTVA Colossus is the largest human-built spacefaring warship in the FreeSpace 2 universe
• Colossus, a level in the Summer Forest Homeworld in Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage!
• Colossus Chess, A game from the 1980's on the Commodore 64/Amiga
• "Colossus", a Protoss unit from StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty.

Rides

• Colossus (Six Flags Magic Mountain), a wooden roller coaster in Valencia, California
• Colossus (Ferris wheel), a Ferris wheel
• Colossus (Thorpe Park), a roller coaster in Chertsey, England
• Colossus (Lagoon), a steel roller coaster at Lagoon Amusement Park in Farmington, Utah
• Colossos (Heide Park), a roller coaster at Heide Park in Soltau, Lower Saxony, Germany

Other

• Colossus, a Reticulated Python, once considered the largest in captivity, when kept at a zoo in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
• HMS Colossus, ships of the UK Royal Navy
• USS Colossus
• Colossus class (disambiguation), multiple classes of warship
• Colossus Bridge, a timber bridge over the Schuylkill River near Philadelphia

See also

• Colossae
• Colosseum
• The Colossus (disambiguation)
• Kolossos Rodou BC, a Greek basketball club based on the island of Rhodes