Rocket (disambiguation)
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A rocket is a vehicle, missile, or aircraft that creates thrust by expelling burned fuel (as exhaust) at a high rate.
Rocket may also mean:
- Rockets, a sugar candy, known as Smarties in the US
- Houston Rockets, an NBA team in Houston, Texas
- Rockettes, a dance company
[edit] Media
- Rocket (comics), DC Comics character
- The Rocket (newspaper), a defunct weekly newspaper in Seattle, Washington and Portland, Oregon
- The Rocket (film), a movie about the life of ice hockey player Maurice Richard
- Rocket: Robot on Wheels, a video game by Sucker Punch Productions
- Rocket is the code-name of the game engine for Age of Empires III
- Rocket Racer, a Marvel comics character
[edit] Music
- Rockets (band), a French electronic rock band active mainly from mid 1970s to mid 1980s
- Rocket (album), an album by the band Primitive Radio Gods
- Rocket (Def Leppard song), a song by Def Leppard from the album Hysteria
- Rocket (song), a song by The Smashing Pumpkins from the album Siamese Dream
- "Rockets", a song by Cat Power from her 1995 album Dear Sir
[edit] People
People nicknamed "Rocket" include:
- Roger Clemens, a baseball pitcher
- Owen Hart, a professional wrestler and former WWE Intercontinental, European, and Tag Team champion
- Raghib Ismail, a former American and Canadian football player
- Ronnie O'Sullivan, a snooker player
- 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"
- Pavel Bure, an ice hockey player, a.k.a. the "Russian Rocket"
- Rocket (Buscapé), the protagonist and narrator in the Brazilian film City of God
[edit] Plants
- Arugula, a plant, also called "rocket salad"
- Various species of fast-growing plants like Arugula include the word "rocket" in their names:
- London Rocket is Sisymbrium irio in family Brassicaceae[1]
- Dyer's Rocket, also called "weld" or Reseda luteola
[edit] Transportation
- Passenger locomotives operated by the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad
- The logo of the Oldsmobile company was, from 1948 to 1997, a stylized rocket.
- Crotch rocket, a slang term for high-performance sport motorcycles
- Rocket (automobile), a failed company
- Stephenson's Rocket, an early steam locomotive
- Rocket, a South Devon Railway 4-4-0ST steam locomotive
- Ride the Rocket is one of the slogans for the Toronto Transit Commission public transit authority
