The word kite may mean:

• Kite flying, the activity of flying a light, man-made object designed to be supported by the wind
• Kite (bird), one of many species of bird of prey in the family Accipitridae
• Geometric kite, a diamond shaped quadrilateral
• HMS Kite (U87), a ship in the British Royal Navy
• Kite, Georgia, a town in the United States
• Check kiting, a kind of bank fraud in which a worthless check is presented to obtain goods or cash
• Kite aspect, a factor in astrology
• Kite, a slang term for correspondence received while incarcerated
• Kite, a hypothetical creature from Extraterrestrial

Kite may also refer to:

• Kite (Kirsty MacColl album) (1989) by Kirsty MacColl
• Kite (Stefanie Sun album) (2001) by Stefanie Sun
• Kite (film), or A Kite, a highly controversial anime release
• "Kite (song)", a song by U2
• "Kites", a poem by Ruskin Bond

Kite is the name of:

• John Kite, 16th century clergyman
• Robert Kite, Lord Mayor of London in 1766
• Son Kite, a psychedelic trance musician
• Tom Kite, American golfer
• William Kite, a Victorian showman made famous again in the song "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" by the Beatles.
• Kite (.hack), a member of Project .hack, a multimedia science fiction series