Rocket (disambiguation)

A rocket is a vehicle, missile, or aircraft propelled by an engine that creates thrust from a high speed exhaust jet made exclusively from propellant.

Rocket or Rockets may also refer to:

• A rocket engine
• Rocket (weapon), an unguided, powered weapon

Media

• Rocket (comics), a DC Comics character
• The Rocket (film), a movie about the life of ice hockey's Maurice Richard
• Rocket: Robot on Wheels, a 1999 video game by Sucker Punch Productions
• MP3 Rocket, a peer-to-peer based file sharing (P2P) client for the Java Platform
• 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
• Rocket (Buscapé), the protagonist and narrator in the Brazilian film City of God
• Rocket, the code-name of the game engine for Age of Empires III

Music

• Rocket Records, a record label
• Rocket (band), an American all-girl pop-punk band formed in 2005
• The Rockets (band), an American rock band from Detroit
• The Rockets (Los Angeles band), pre-Crazy Horse
• The Rockets (album), by the Los Angeles band
• Rockets (band), a French space rock band formed in 1972 (a.k.a. Les Rockets)
  • Rockets (Rockets album), their self-titled album
• Rockets (Daniel Lanois album), 2005
• The Rockettes, a dance company
• Rockit Hong Kong Music Festival
• Rocket (album), a 1996 album by the band Primitive Radio Gods
• "Rocket" (Def Leppard song), 1987
• "Rocket" (The Smashing Pumpkins song), 1993
• "Rocket" (Goldfrapp song), 2010
• "Rocket" (El Presidente song)
• "Rockit", a 1983 Herbie Hancock song
• The Rockets, a Louisiana band featuring Dick Holler
• The Rockets, 1950s British rock and roll group led by Tony Crombie

People

• Charles Rocket (1949–2005), American film and television actor

Nicknames

• Matt Bonner (born 1980), basketball player, a.k.a. the "Red Rocket"
• Pavel Bure (born 1971), ice hockey player, a.k.a. the "Russian Rocket"
• Roger Clemens (born 1962), baseball pitcher
• Owen Hart (1965–1999), professional wrestler
• Raghib Ismail (born 1969), former professional American football and Canadian football player
• Rod Laver (born 1938), Australian tennis player
• Ronnie O'Sullivan (born 1975), snooker player
• Rodney Morris (born 1970), pool player
• Rikki Rockett (born 1961), stage name of the drummer for the rock band Poison
• Maurice Richard (1921–2000), former ice hockey player whose nickname was "the Rocket"
• Henri Richard (born 1936), former ice hockey player (brother of Maurice), a.k.a. the "Pocket Rocket"
• Ronny Rosenthal, former soccer player, a.k.a. "Rocket Ronny"
• Ryan Newman (born 1977), NASCAR driver who is referred to as "The Rocket" when he qualifies on the pole

Plants

• Rocket (vegetable), a leafy vegetable (Eruca sativa) also known as arugula
• Diplotaxis tenuifolia (Wild Rocket), a leafy vegetable cultivated for its spicy flavoured leaves
• London Rocket, a herbal plant in the family Brassicaceae
• Hesperis matronalis (Dame's Rocket), a wildflower native to Eurasia, now widely cultivated in many other areas of the world

Sport

• 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 the University of Toledo

Transport

• Various passenger trains operated by the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad
• Stephenson's Rocket, an historic early steam locomotive
• Rocket, a South Devon Railway Comet class steam locomotive
• HMS Rocket, the name of eight ships of the Royal Navy and one planned ship
• Toronto Rocket (Toronto subway car), the newest articulated subway fleet for the Toronto Transit Commission's subway system, a public transit agency for Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Other

• Rocket stove, variety of wood-burning stove
• Rockets (candy), a fruit-flavored sugar candy known as Smarties in the U.S.
• Rocket (firework)