Flare may refer to:

• Flare (pyrotechnic), a luminous device often used for signaling
• Flare (breakdancing move), a difficult athletic move
• Flare (magazine), a Canadian fashion and style magazine
• Flare (software), a help-authoring package.
• Flare (Dragonlance), a Blue Dragon who serves Steel Brightblade
• Flare (science fiction novel) by Roger Zelazny and Thomas Timoux Thomas, published in 1992
• Flare Technology, a corporation
• Gas flare or flare stack, a type of chimney
• Lens flare, a phenomenon occurring in viewing lenses when observing bright sources of light
• Solar flare, an eruption of plasma from the surface of the sun
• Satellite flare, a phenomenon caused by the reflective surfaces on satellites
• Bell-bottoms, a style of trousers

Flare may also be:

• An aircraft landing manoeuvre in which the pilot arrests the steady descent of the aircraft, near the runway, by raising the nose of the aircraft, relatively sharply, and uses lift to overcome the downward momentum and arrest the speed of descent. The increasing ground effect on wing-lift helps smooth the landing as forward speed decreases quickly with the increased drag from the higher angle of attack.

• A parachute landing manoeuvre in skydiving necessary for a safe landing of a modern ram-air canopy. The pilot pulls down on both steering toggles, thus pulling down both of the rear corners of the canopy, analogous to extending the flaps of an aircraft wing. This wing configuration produces more lift, slowing down the descent rate, and more drag, decreasing the forward speed. A properly executed flare allows a gentle, tip-toe landing.

• The sudden expansion of the tip of a stallion's penis during equine reproduction.

• One of highest-level black magic spells in the video game series Final Fantasy. In most games, it appears as one of the most powerful attack spells. Its main strength is that, despite looking like a fire spell most of the time, it does not have an element, and thus is extremely useful against an enemy with unknown or nonexistent elemental weakness - and also because it's usually the strongest spell you can cast in one turn. Its main weakness is that it can usually only hit one opponent at a time. It's generally quite costly (in terms of MP) to use.

The word Flare is also used in:

• Xara Flare Open Vector File Format
• Mylene Flare Jenius (ミレーヌF ジーナス, Mirēnu F. Jīnasu), a fictional character in the Macross universe

フレア | flara