Rocket

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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:

In 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

In music and dance

• Rocket (band), an American all-girl pop-punk band formed in 2005
• Rocket (album), an album by the band Primitive Radio Gods
• Rocket (Mud), a song by glam rock band Mud
• "Rocket" (Def Leppard song), a song by Def Leppard
• "Rocket" (The Smashing Pumpkins song), a song by The Smashing Pumpkins
• Rockets (band), a French space rock band formed in 1972 in Paris (a.k.a. Les Rockets)
• Rockets (album), the debut self-titled album by French band Rockets, released in June 1976
• "Rockets", a song by Cat Power from her 1995 album Dear Sir
• Rocket Records, a record label
• The Rockettes, a dance company
• Rockit, a Herbie Hancock song
• "If There's a Rocket Tie Me to It", a 2009 single from Snow Patrol
• The Rockit Hong Kong Music Festival
• Love and Rockets Love and Rockets (band)

People

• Charles Rocket

People nicknamed "Rocket" include:

• 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, in both the Canadian Football League and National Football League
• 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.
• Robert Romano (ER), a fictional general surgeon on the TV series ER.

Plants

• Eruca sativa, a leafy vegetable known in vernacular as "rocket"
• 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.

In sports

See also "People" above.

• 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

In rail 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.

In sea transport

• 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.

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