Dictionary Definition
raider
Noun
1 someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war)
[syn: plunderer,
pillager, looter, spoiler, despoiler, freebooter]
2 a corporate investor who intends to take over a
company by buying a controlling interest in its stock and
installing new management
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -eɪdə(r)
Extensive Definition
A raider or raiders can refer to those who
participate in a military
raid or to:
in Food:
- Space Raiders, a brand of crisps. Its logo bears a reasonable resemblance to the Tomb Raider logo - and is possibly a parody.
in sports organizations:
- Raiders, a football (soccer) club in Adelaide, South Australia.
- Rochester Raiders, a CIFL team based in Rochester, New York, USA
- Canberra Raiders, a National Rugby League team based in Canberra, Australia
- Oakland Raiders, a National Football League team based in Oakland, California, USA
- The Shippensburg Red Raiders of Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, the NCAA Division II athletics teams in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, USA
- Texas Tech Red Raiders, an NCAA Division I team from Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, USA. The women's basketball team is called the Lady Raiders
- Utica Raiders (originally the Lincoln Raiders), a semi-professional American football in Utica, NY, USA in the 1940s and 1950s
- Wodonga Raiders Football Club, a football (soccer) club in Wodonga, Australia.
in military organizations:
- Batalyon Raiders, a special forces unit of the Indonesian Military
- Marine Raiders, an elite unit established by the United States Marine Corps during World War II
- Quantrill's Raiders, Confederate guerrillas in the American Civil War
- Raider (piracy), people who commit robbery at the sea
- Tarleton's Raiders, a unit of British dragoons active during the American Revolution
in military vehicles:
- Great Eastern Islamic Raiders' Front, a Turkish terrorist organisation
- Merchant raider, a type of ship in naval warfare
- Commerce raider, a type of warship in naval warfare
- Dark Eldar raider, a type of anti-gravity transport used in the game Warhammer 40,000
- GAT-X370 Raider Gundam, a second generation Earth Alliance mobile suit from Gundam SEED
in video games:
- Battle Realms, an RTS game feature East Asia with the Raiders as 2 tier units of the Serpent Clan
- Star Raiders, a computer game for the Atari video game system
- Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, a series of video games, comic books, movies, animations and novels (ect..) - centring around Lara Croft's journeys around the globe, in search of priceless trinkets and artefacts.
- Ace Combat, a Playstation and Xbox 360 based RPG and the Raiders are a gaming clan for non-online Multiplayer competition
in books
- Raider (novel), a book by Susan Gates
in movies:
- Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, a 2001 film based on the game
- Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, the 2003 sequel
- Raiders of the Lost Ark, the original name for the first Indiana Jones movie. It has since been re-titled "Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark" for recent home video packaging, although the original title remains in the film
in television:
- Raiders of the Lost Harp, an episode of DuckTales
- Cylon Raider, the basic Cylon fighter craft in Battlestar Galactica
in other people and organizations:
- Paul Revere & the Raiders, an American rock band
- Tusken Raiders (aka Sand People), fictional creatures in the Star Wars saga
- Turanic Raiders, a race of space pirates from the strategy game Homeworld
- Raider (Babylon 5), space pirates from Babylon 5
in school mascots:
- Raider (Benjamin Logan High School)
- Raider (Billy Ryan High School)
- Raider (Brownell-Talbot School)
- Raider (Crescent Valley High School)
- Raider (Delhi District Secondary School)
- Raider (East Peoria Community High School)
- Raider (Edward C. Reed High School)
- Raider Githen middle school, (Durham Public Schools)
- Raider (Glenbard South High School)
- Raider (Good Hope High School)
- Raider (Gulliver Preparatory School)
- Raider (Horseheads High School)
- Raider (John A. Rowland High School)
- Raider (John I. Burton High School, Norton, Virginia)
- Raider (Leonardtown High School)
- Raider (Loudoun County High School)
- Raider (Lumberton High School)
- Raider (Mabelvale Magnet Middle School)
- Raider (Middletown Area School District)
- Raider (Nathan Hale High School)
- Raider (Okaloosa-Walton College)
- Raider (Pierce College)
- Raider (Pine High School)
- Raider (Riverwood High School)
- Raider (Scoth Plains-Fanwood School District)
- Raider (Shippensburg)
- Raider (Silver Creek High School San Jose, CA)
- Raider (Southeast Whitfield High School)
- Raider (Thomas Jefferson High School, Federal Way, Washington)
- Raider (Warren East High School in Bowling Green,Ky)
- Raider (Wellesley High School)
- Raider (Wylie East High School)
- "Raider", the old name for Twix in some European countries
raider in German: Raider
raider in Dutch: Raider
raider in Ukrainian: Рейдери