A rocket is a vehicle, missile, or aircraft that creates thrust by expelling burned fuel (as exhaust) at a high rate.

It can also refer to a rocket engine.

Rocket may also mean:

• Rockets, a sugar candy, known as Smarties in the US
• Rockettes, a dance company
• Garden Rocket or Arugula, a leafy vegetable
• Rocket stoves

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 is the code-name of the game engine for Age of Empires III
• Rocket Racer, a Marvel comics character

Music

• Rockets (band), a French electronic rock band active mainly from mid 1970s to mid 1980s
• Rockets! (band), a Canadian rock band formed in early 2006, signed to the Meadows Collective
• Rocket (album), an album by the band Primitive Radio Gods
• Rocket (Def Leppard song), a song by Def Leppard
• Rocket (song), a song by The Smashing Pumpkins
• "Rockets", a song by Cat Power from her 1995 album Dear Sir
• Rocket Records, a record label

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"
• Rocket (Buscapé), the protagonist and narrator in the Brazilian film City of God
• Roger Clemens, a baseball pitcher
• Owen Hart, a professional wrestler
• Raghib Ismail, a former American Canadia football player
• Rod Laver, Australian tennis player
• Ronnie O'Sullivan, a snooker 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"
• Rocket, a BBC cameraman on Red Dwarf, so nicknamed because of an incident where he missed a shot of a rocket launch he was supposed to be filming.
• Ryan Newman, a NASCAR driver who is referred as "The Rocket" when he qualifies on the pole.

Plants

• Arugula, a plant, also called "rocket salad"
• Various species of fast-growing plants like Arugula include the word "rocket" in their names. Almost all of them are Breassicales:
  • London Rocket is Sisymbrium irio in the Brassicaceae family
  • Dyer's Rocket, also called "weld" or Reseda luteola

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

Transportation

Road transport

• 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

Rail transport

• Various passenger trains operated by the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad
• 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

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