Crusader
Appearance
A crusader is someone who participates in a crusade.
Crusader may also refer to:
In the military:
- Crusader tank, a British cruiser tank of World War II
- Operation Crusader, a British attack in North African campaign in World War II
- F-8 Crusader, a U.S. Navy fighter jet
- F8U-3 Crusader III, an experimental fighter intended to replace the F-8 and compete with the F-4 Phantom II
- VMFA-122 Crusaders, a United States Marine Corps fixed wing fighter-attack squadron 122
- XM2001 Crusader, an American self propelled artillery project
In music:
- Crusader (album), the debut album by New Zealand rapper Scribe
- Crusader (Saxon album)
- The Crusaders, a jazz and R&B group popular in the 1970s
- Boston Crusaders Drum and Bugle Corps, a Drum Corps International division I marching band
In entertainment:
- Crusaders (comics), two fictional superhero teams in comics
- Crusader (Marvel Comics), a fictional character created by Marvel Comics and enemy to Thor; later, an unrelated Skrull superhero of the same name
- Crusader Comics, controversial comics published by Chick Publications that concentrate mainly on anti-Christian conspiracy theories
- Crusader (game series), an action-oriented computer game series
- Crusader (Dungeons & Dragons), a Dungeons & Dragons character class
- The Crusader (film), a 2007 motion picture
- Crusader (film), a 2004 motion picture
- Crusader (television), a 1950s series
In sports:
- Crusaders (rugby) (formerly the Canterbury Crusaders), a rugby union team from New Zealand
- Celtic Crusaders, a rugby league team from Wales
- Western Crusaders, a rugby union team from Fiji
- Crusaders F.C., a football team from Northern Ireland
- Valparaiso Crusaders, the sports teams of Valparaiso University
- Crusaders, the sports teams of the University of Dallas
- Crusader (horse), a United States racehorse
Other uses:
- Crusader (speedboat), a jet speedboat in which John Cobb fatally crashed
- Crusader (train), a streamlined train which operated between 1937 and 1960
- a newspaper in New Orleans that opposed racial segregation in the 1790s
- Crusaders Christian Youth Movement, youth group founded by a missionary Albert Kestin
- The Crusaders (repeal of alcohol prohibition), a group that promoted repeal of national alcohol prohibition in the U.S.
See also
- Batman, a comic book character nicknamed the "Caped Crusader"