Crusader or Crusaders most commonly refers to:

  • Crusaders, the participants in one of the Crusades, religious wars of the High Middle Ages

Crusader, Crusaders and variations may also refer to:

Military

  • Convair NB-36H, an experimental nuclear-powered bomber nicknamed 'The Crusader'
  • Crusader tank, a British cruiser tank of World War II
  • Crusaders (guerrilla), a Croatian anti-communist guerrilla army
  • F-8 Crusader, a U.S. Navy fighter jet
  • XF8U-3 Crusader III, an experimental fighter intended to replace the F-8
  • , three British ships
  • Operation Crusader, a British attack in North Africa in the Second World War
  • Crusaders, former nickname of VMFA-122, a United States Marine Corps unit
  • XM2001 Crusader, an American self-propelled artillery project

Arts, entertainment, and media

Music

Albums

  • Crusader (Chris de Burgh album), released in 1979
  • Crusader (Saxon album), released in 1984
  • The Crusader (album), the 2003 debut album by New Zealand rapper Scribe

Groups

  • The Crusaders (jazz fusion group), an American jazz/jazz fusion group, formerly the Jazz Crusaders
  • The Crusaders (garage band), a 1960s garage band from Los Angeles who released first Gospel rock record
  • The Crusaders, Neil Christian's backing group
  • Boston Crusaders Drum and Bugle Corps, a Drum Corps International World Class drum corps
  • Oregon Crusaders Drum and Bugle Corps, a DCI Open Class drum corps

Films

  • The Crusaders (1918 film), an Italian film
  • The Crusader (1932 film), a film starring Evelyn Brent
  • The Crusaders (2001 film), an Italian television mini-series
  • Crusader (film), a 2005 TV movie starring Bo Derek and Andrew McCarthy

Fictional characters

  • Crusader (Dungeons & Dragons), a Dungeons & Dragons character Class
  • Crusader (Marvel Comics), two different fictional characters in Marvel Comics
  • Crusader, an alias used by a character claiming to be Marvel Boy
  • Crusaders (DC Comics), a name used by a team of DC Comics superheroes
  • Crusaders (Marvel Comics), a name by a similar team from Marvel Comics
  • "The Crusaders", a 1992 DC Comics relaunch of Mighty Crusaders, a comics superhero team

Games

  • Crusader (game series), a 1995 action computer game series
  • Crusader: Adventure Out of Time, a 1997 video game
  • Stronghold: Crusader, a 2001 computer strategy game

Literature

  • Crusader (Bloor novel), a 1999 novel by Edward Bloor
  • Crusader (Sara Douglass novel), a 1999 fantasy novel by Sara Douglass
  • The Crusaders, a 1948 bestseller by Stefan Heym
  • The Crusaders. An Historical Romance, of the Twelfth Century, an 1820 novel by Louisa Stanhope

Periodicals

Many newspapers have used The Crusader as a title, including:

  • Crusader, a newspaper of the African Blood Brotherhood
  • Crusader, a publication of College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts
  • Crusader, a newspaper of The Knights Party
  • The New Orleans Crusader, also known as the Crusader and Weekly Crusader, a publication that carried entries from Rodolphe Desdunes

Other arts, entertainment, and media

  • Crusader (TV series), a 1955–1956 adventure/drama television series starring Brian Keith
  • "The Crusaders", the initial name of Southern Knights, a comic series started in 1982
  • The Crusader (sculpture), a 1931 Lorado Taft sculpture in Chicago's Graceland Cemetery

Sports

Athletics teams

  • Bishop Heelan Catholic High School Crusaders, Sioux City, Iowa
  • Belmont Abbey College Crusaders, the athletic teams of Belmont Abbey College, Belmont, North Carolina
  • Capital Crusaders, the athletic teams of Capital University, Columbus, Ohio
  • Canisius Crusaders, the athletics teams of Canisius High School, Buffalo, New York
  • Crusaders, the athletics teams of Chicago's Brother Rice High School
  • Holy Cross Crusaders, the athletics teams of College of the Holy Cross
  • North Greenville Crusaders, the athletic teams of North Greenville University, Tigerville, South Carolina
  • Pensacola Catholic Crusaders, the sports teams of Pensacola Catholic High School
  • Riordan Crusaders, the sports teams of Archbishop Riordan High School, San Francisco, California
  • Univ. of Dallas Crusaders, the sports teams of the University of Dallas

Cricket teams

  • Kandy Crusaders, a Sri Lankan domestic T20 cricket team

Football teams

  • Amsterdam Crusaders, an American football team from the Netherlands
  • Carlstad Crusaders, an American football team from Sweden
  • Crusaders F.C., an association football team from Northern Ireland
  • Gilford Crusaders F.C., an association football team from Northern Ireland

Ice hockey teams

  • Cleveland Crusaders, a World Hockey Association team from 1972 to 1976

Rugby league teams

  • London Broncos, an English rugby league club once known as London Crusaders
  • Crusaders Rugby League, a defunct Welsh rugby league club, formerly the Celtic Crusaders
  • North Wales Crusaders, Phoenix club of the above

Rugby union teams

  • Crusaders (rugby union), a rugby union team from New Zealand, formerly the Canterbury Crusaders
  • Western Crusaders, a rugby union team from Fiji

Other uses in sports

  • Crusader (horse) (1923–1940), a United States racehorse
  • Lucas Oil Crusader, a monster truck currently racing in the Monster Jam professional monster truck racing series

Transportation

Civilian aircraft and ships

  • Crusader (speedboat), the jet speedboat in which John Cobb died
  • American Gyro AG-4 Crusader, an aircraft built by the Crusader Aircraft Corporation
  • Cessna T303 Crusader, a civilian aircraft
  • Short Crusader, a racing seaplane built by Short Brothers

Civilian ground vehicles

  • Crusader (train), a streamlined train which operated between 1937 and 1981
  • Crusader, a type of emergency ambulance in widespread use in the United Kingdom, originally developed by the St John Ambulance Brigade
  • Crusader, a GWR 3031 Class locomotive that was built for and ran on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915

Other uses

  • The Crusaders (repeal of alcohol prohibition), a group that promoted repeal of national alcohol prohibition in the U.S.
  • Crusaders, the 1906-2006 name of Urban Saints, a Christian youth charity based in the United Kingdom

See also

  • Crusade (disambiguation)
  • Mujahid (disambiguation)
  • Mujahideen, participants in jihad ("crusade" or "struggle")