Contra
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Contra is a Latin preposition meaning "against". It may refer to:
- Contras, Nicaraguan counter-revolutionaries opposed to the Sandinistas
- Iran-Contra affair, the Reagan administration selling weapons to Iran to fund the Contras
- Contra (series), a line of run and gun video games created by Konami
- Contra (video game), the original, released in 1987
- Contra dance, several folk dance styles in which couples dance in two facing lines of indefinite length
- Cosmin Contra, a Romanian football player
- Contra (Swedish magazine), an anti-socialist magazine in Sweden
- Contra (citation signal), in legal citation
- Tenero-Contra, a municipality in the district of Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland
- Music
- Contrabassoon, or double bassoon, a larger version of the bassoon sounding an octave lower
- Contra-alto and Contrabass clarinets
- Contrabass and Subcontrabass saxophones
- Contrabass bugle, the lowest-pitched instrument in the drum and bugle corps hornline
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