Drone

Drone may refer to:

Nature

The male sex of social Hymenopterans, such as a

• Drone (bee)
• male wasp
• male ant

Chemicals

An abbreviation referring to one of two psychoactive drugs:

• Mephedrone
• 4-Methoxymethcathinone, commonly known as methedrone

Vehicles

A teleoperated or autonomous vehicle:

• Unmanned aerial vehicles
• Target drones
• Remotely operated underwater vehicles
• Unmanned ground vehicles

Literature

• A member of the Drones Club in P. G. Wodehouse's novels
• An intelligent machine in the Culture novel series

Film, television and video games

• Drone, used to variously describe small unmanned autonomous scout, mining, electronics, repair and attack spacecraft in Eve Online
• "Drone" (Voyager episode), an episode of Star Trek: Voyager
• A humanoid that has been assimilated by the Borg in the Star Trek universe
• Drone Weapon, similar to a guided missile, in the Stargate universe
• Three robotic helpers in the film Silent Running
• An antagonistic race in the Halo (series)
• Drones in StarCraft (The worker units of the Zerg).
• A popular nickname for the Bioware fanbase.
• The infantry of the Locust Horde in the Gears of War (series)
• Drones (film), a film in which an office worker discovers several of his co-workers are aliens.
• Discontent citizens prone to rioting in Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.

Music

• Drone (music), a continuous note or chord, or the part of various musical instruments that produces such a sound
• Drone music, a musical style
• The Drones, an Australian band
• The Drones (British band)
• Drone Records, a record label
• A bumbass, a folk instrument sometimes called a drone
• A song by the band Rise Against on the album The Sufferer & the Witness