Rocket (disambiguation)

Rocket refers to a vehicle, missile, or aircraft propelled by an engine that creates thrust from a high speed exhaust jet made exclusively from propellant.

It can also refer to a rocket engine.

Rocket may also refer to:

Media

• Rocket (comics), a DC Comics character
• 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
• The Rocket (film), a movie about the life of ice hockey's Maurice Richard
• Rocket: Robot on Wheels, a video game by Sucker Punch Productions
• 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
• MP3 Rocket, a peer-to-peer based file sharing (P2P) client for the Java Platform
• Rocket, a character in Galactik Football

Music

• Rocket (band), an American all-girl pop-punk band formed in 2005
• Rocket Records, a record label
• Rocket (album), an album by the band Primitive Radio Gods
• "Rocket" (Def Leppard song), a song by Def Leppard
• "Rocket" (The Smashing Pumpkins song), a song by The Smashing Pumpkins
• "Rocket" (Goldfrapp song), a song by Goldfrapp
• "Rocket", a song by glam rock band Mud
• Rockets (band), a French space rock band formed in 1972 (a.k.a. Les Rockets)
• Rockets (album), self-titled album by French band Rockets
• "Rockets", a song by Cat Power from her 1995 album Dear Sir
• The Rockettes, a dance company
• Rockit, a Herbie Hancock song
• The Rockit Hong Kong Music Festival

People

• Charles Rocket

Nicknames

• Matt Bonner, a basketball player, a.k.a. the "Red Rocket"
• Pavel Bure, an ice hockey player, a.k.a. the "Russian Rocket"
• Roger Clemens, a baseball pitcher
• Owen Hart, a professional wrestler
• Raghib Ismail, a former professional American football and Canadian football player
• Rod Laver, Australian tennis player
• Ronnie O'Sullivan, a snooker player
• Rodney Morris, a pool player
• Rikki Rockett, stage name of the drummer for the rock band Poison
• Maurice Richard, a former ice hockey player whose nickname was "the Rocket"
• Henri Richard, a former ice hockey player (brother of Maurice), a.k.a. the "Pocket Rocket"
• Ryan Newman, a NASCAR driver who is referred as "The Rocket" when he qualifies on the pole.

Plants

• Rocket (vegetable), a leafy vegetable also known as arugula.
• Wild Rocket, a leafy vegetable cultivated for its spicy flavoured leaves.
• London Rocket, a herbal plant in the family Brassicaceae
• 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 early steam locomotive which won the Rainhill Trials.
• Rocket, a South Devon Railway Comet class steam locomotive.
• "Ride the Rocket" is a slogan for the Toronto Transit Commission.
• HMS Rocket, the name of eight ships of the Royal Navy and one planned one

Other

• Rocket stove, variety of wood-burning stove
• Rocket (Beanie Baby), a Beanie Baby blue jay produced by Ty, Inc. in 1998
• Rockets (candy), a fruit-flavored sugar candy known as Smarties in the U.S.