Trap

A trap is a mechanical device used to capture or restrain an animal for purposes such as hunting, pest control, or ecological research.

Trap or TRAP may also refer to:

Art and entertainment

Films and television

• Trap (2015 film), Filipino film
• Traps (1994 film), Australian film by Pauline Chan
• A Trap (1997), Polish film
• Trap (TV series), a 2019 South Korean television series
• Traps (TV series), a 1994 American police family drama

Music

• Trap music, a subgenre of hip hop that originated in the 1990s
• Trap music (EDM), a subgenre of electronic dance music that originated in the 2010s
• Trap (EP), debut by Henry, 2013
• Trap (Dead Man Ray album), 2000
• "Trap" (Shakira song) (feat. Maluma), 2018
• "Trap", a song by Elizaveta from Messenger
• "The Trap", a song from Playland by Johnny Marr
• "The Trap", a song from Good & Evil by Tally Hall
• Traps (album), 2012 by Jaill
• "Traps", a single from the Bloc Party album Alpha Games, 2021
• Traps, a stage name used by the drummer Buddy Rich

Other uses in art and entertainment

• Trap (novel), by Peter Mathers, 1966
• Claptrap, a fictional character from Borderlands
• Trap room, a part of a theatre
• Treasury Relief Art Project (1935–39), a New Deal art project

Biology and medicine

• Trapezius, a muscle

• Tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase, a metalloenzyme involved in bone formation
• Mediator (coactivator) or thyroid hormone receptor-associated proteins
• TNF-related activation protein, also known as CD40 ligand
• Tripartite ATP-independent periplasmic transporter, in prokaryotes
• trp RNA-binding attenuation protein, in bacilli
• US TRAP laws ("Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers")
• TNF receptor associated periodic syndrome (TRAPS)
• Twin reversed arterial perfusion, a twin pregnancy abnormality

Games

• Trap (chess)
• Trap (poker), a strategy
• Trap pass, see Glossary of contract bridge terms

Places

• Tarap, Attock, a village in Pakistan
• Trap, Mogila, a village in North Macedonia
• Trap, Carmarthenshire, a hamlet in Wales, United Kingdom
• Trap Grounds, a nature reserve in Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Science and technology

• Chemical trap, a chemical compound that is used to detect unstable compounds
• Petroleum trap, a geological structure that creates a petroleum reservoir
• Trap rock, any dark-colored, fine-grained, non-granitic igneous rock
• Trap and trace device, records any number called by, or calling, a particular telephone
• Trap (plumbing), a pipe to prevent the release of gases
• Trap (printing), a commercial-printing technique to overcome registration problems

Computing

• Interrupt, a request for the processor to interrupt executing code
• A type of Simple Network Management Protocol Protocol Data Unit used to report an alert or other asynchronous event about a managed subsystem
• Intercepting normal method calls via a proxy object

Sports

• Neutral zone trap, an ice hockey defensive strategy
• Sand trap, a type of bunker (golf)
• Starting Traps, the equipment that racing greyhounds start a race from
• Trap shooting
• Triathlon Association of the Philippines, the governing body for the sport in the Philippines

Transportation

• Trap (car), a secret compartment in an automobile
• Trap (carriage), a type of horse-drawn carriage
• Traffic-related air pollution

Other uses

• Trapdoor
• Operation Trap, code name of a large-scale Soviet offensive operation against the Mujahideen supply base of Karkari-Sharshari
• Tactical Recovery of Aircraft and Personnel, a U.S. military term for a rescue mission to retrieve a downed aircraft

See also

• Ambush
• Booby trap
• Sand trap (disambiguation)
• The Trap (disambiguation)
• Trapped (disambiguation)
• Trapper (disambiguation)