Turtle (disambiguation)

A turtle is a reptile, most of whose body is shielded by a special bony or cartilaginous shell.

Turtle(s) may also refer to:

Entertainment

• Turtle (gaming), a primarily defensive strategy in various computer games
• Turtles (video game), a 1981 arcade game by Konami
• Turtle (magazine), a 1979–2014 American bi-monthly for preschoolers
• Turtle: The Incredible Journey, a 2009 German-British-Austrian documentary
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, a superhero franchise, sometimes known as Ninja Turtles or Turtles

Fictional characters

• Touché Turtle and Dum Dum, characters in a Hanna-Barbera cartoon show
• Turtle (comics), two villains who were primarily enemies of Flash
• Turtle (Entourage), a character in the HBO television series Entourage
• The Great and Powerful Turtle, aka "Turtle" or "The Turtle", a character in the Wild Cards novels
• Turtle, a character in Barbara Kingsolver's novels The Bean Trees and Pigs in Heaven
• The Red Turtle, a massive female turtle with a red shell and the titular character of the dialogue-less Japanese animated movie.

Music

• The Turtles, an American folk-rock band, best known for the 1967 hit song "Happy Together"
• Turtles (South Korean band), a K-Hip-Hop band
• "Turtle", a song from the album twicetagram by South Korean girl group TWICE

Places

• Turtle Mountain (Alberta), Canada
• Guishan Island (Yilan) or Turtle Mountain, Taiwan
• Turtle Bay (disambiguation)
• Turtle Creek (disambiguation)
• Turtle Island (disambiguation)
• Turtle Lake (disambiguation)

United States

• Turtle, Missouri
• Turtle, Wisconsin, a town
• Turtle Mountains (California)
• Turtle Mound, a prehistoric archaeological site in Florida
• Rio Turtle or Turtle Rock, West Virginia

Technology

• Turtle (robot), a class of educational robots used most prominently in the 1970s and 1980s

Computing

• Turtle (syntax), a Terse RDF Triple language
• Turtle F2F, a tool for exchanging contents in an anonymous and secure way over a friend-to-friend (F2F) network
• Turtle graphics, using a relative cursor, the "turtle"
• Turtles, small values near the end of the list in sorting; See Comb sort

Watercraft

• Turtle (submersible), the first military diving bell, built during the American Revolutionary War
• DSV Turtle, a retired ocean research submersible of the US Navy
• Turtleback Deck, a rounded weather deck

People

As a surname, Turtle is believed to be akin to Dove, Pigeon, Sparrow, and Jay, deriving from the bird now called the turtle dove, known in the Middle Ages as a turtle.

• John Turtle (born 1937), Australian academic and endocrinologist
• Roger Turtle (fl. 1326-1344), English politician
• Tommy Turtle (1950–2020), a British Army officer from Ireland
• Turtle Bunbury (born 1972), Irish historian and author

Other uses

• Turtles (chocolate), a type of candy trademarked by DeMet's Candy Company
• Turtle's Records & Tapes, a defunct American retail chain
• Botts' dots, often called turtles in Washington and Oregon
• Turtle (grappling), a grappling position
• European turtle dove, archaic name turtle
• Turtle Entertainment, German company
• Turtle, a member of the Ancient Order of Turtles, or Turtle Club
• Turtle, a type of spinning float, a breakdancing move
• Turtle beans

See also

• TIRTL, a traffic logger and speed measurement device
• Turtling (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles beginning with Turtle