Rocket (disambiguation)

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A rocket is a vehicle, missile, or aircraft propelled by an engine that creates thrust from a high speed exhaust jet made exclusively from propellant.

Rocket or Rockets may also refer to:

Projectiles

Arts and entertainment

Film

Military

  • HMS Rocket, eight ships of the Royal Navy and one planned ship
  • Rocket (weapon), projectile weapon
  • Operation Rocket, a British Second World War Club Run supplying aircraft to the besieged island of Malta

Music

Bands

  • Rockets (band), a French space rock band formed in 1972 (a.k.a. Les Rockets)
  • The Rockets (Detroit band), an American rock band from Detroit
  • The Rockets (Los Angeles band)
    , pre-Crazy Horse
  • The Rockets, a Louisiana band featuring Dick Holler
  • The Rockets, 1950s British rock and roll group led by Tony Crombie
  • The Rockets, Kansas City big band led by Harlan Leonard, founded in 1937
  • The Rockets, of
    Anson Funderburgh and the Rockets
    , a Texas blues band

Albums

Songs

People

  • Rocket (nickname)
  • Owen Hart (1965–1999), Canadian professional wrestler with the ring name "The Rocket"
  • Charles Rocket (1949–2005), stage name of American actor Charles Adams Claverie
  • Rockets Redglare (1949–2001), stage name of American actor Michael Morra
  • Evan Dollard (born 1982), stage name from the 2008 American Gladiators TV series
  • Maurice Richard (1921–2000), Canadian professional ice hockey player nicknamed "Rocket"

Characters

Plants

  • Rocket (plant)
    (Eruca sativa), a leafy vegetable also known as "arugula"
  • Diplotaxis tenuifolia (wild rocket), a leafy vegetable cultivated for its spicy flavoured leaves
  • Hesperis matronalis (dame's rocket), a wildflower
  • Reseda luteola (dyer's rocket), a plant that makes a yellow dye
  • Sisymbrium irio (London rocket), a herbal plant in the family Brassicaceae
  • Blue rocket, another name for aconitum

Sports teams

  • Air Transport Command Rockets, a World War II football team from the Air Transport Command
  • Bayi Rockets, a team in the Chinese Basketball Association
  • Chicago Rockets, a team in the All-America Football Conference from 1946 to 1949
  • Dundee Rockets, a defunct ice hockey club that was based in Dundee, Scotland
  • Houston Rockets, a National Basketball Association team
  • Jacksonville Rockets, an Eastern Hockey League team from 1964 to 1972
  • Kelowna Rockets, a Canadian Western Hockey League team
  • Montreal Rocket, a Quebec Major Junior Hockey League team from 1999 to 2003
  • Oettinger Rockets
    , a German basketball team
  • P.E.I. Rocket
    , a Quebec Major Junior Hockey League team
  • Philadelphia Rockets, an American Hockey League team of the 1940s
  • Reading Rockets, a team in the English Basketball League
  • Rye House Rockets, an English speedway team
  • Strathroy Rockets, a Canadian Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League team based in Strathroy, Ontario
  • Tacoma Rockets, a junior ice hockey team in the Western Hockey League from 1991 to 1995
  • Tacoma Rockets (PCHL and WHL)
    , a professional ice hockey team in Tacoma, Washington, from 1946 to 1953
  • Toledo Rockets, the athletic teams of the University of Toledo
  • Toronto Rockets (soccer), an American Professional Soccer League team for the 1994 season, based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Transportation

Other uses

See also