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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
• Houston Rockets, an NBA team in Houston, Texas
• Rockettes, a dance company

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
• Robot on Wheels, a video game by Sucker Punch Productions

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

People

• 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"

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^*
  • Dyer's Rocket, also called "weld" or Reseda luteola

Transportation

• Passenger locomotives operated by the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad
• Crotch rocket, a slang term for high-performance sport motorcycles
• Rocket (automobile), a failed company
• Stephenson's Rocket, an early steam locomotive
• Ride the Rocket is one of the slogans for the Toronto Transit Commission public transit authority

Rocket | ロケット (曖昧さ回避)