Raid

Raid or RAID may refer to:

Attack

• Raid (military), a sudden attack behind the enemy's lines without the intention of holding ground
• Police raid, a police action involving the entering of a house with the intent to capture personnel or evidence, often taking place early in the morning
• Corporate raid, a type of hostile takeover in business
• Panty raid, a prankish raid by male college students on the living quarters of female students to steal panties as trophies
• Raid (gaming), a type of mission in a video game where a very large number of people combine forces to defeat a powerful enemy

Entertainment

• Raid (band), a Tennessee based band
• Raid – A sail and oar adventure, a leisure pursuit combining sailing and rowing
• Raid (film), a 2003 Finnish film
• Raid over Moscow, a 1984 computer game re-released as Raid
• "Raid", a song by Lakeside on the album Untouchables
• R.A.I.D., a branch of the fictional Marvel Comics terrorist group Advanced Idea Mechanics

Other uses

• Redundant Array of Independent Disks or Inexpensive Disks (RAID), a system of multiple hard drives in computing
• Research, Assistance, Intervention, Deterrence, an anti-terrorist unit of the French National Police
• Rights and Accountability in Development, a UK-based organisation that brought a case against Tremalt
• Raid (insecticide), a consumer insecticide marketed by S. C. Johnson & Son

See also

• Kaljo Raid (1921–2005), Estonian composer
• Raed (Arabic: Rā'id), a given name (including a list of people with the name)
• The Raid (disambiguation)
• Raider (disambiguation)