A kite is a tethered heavier-than-air or lighter-than-air craft with wing surfaces.

Kite or kites may also refer to:

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  • Kite (bird), the common name for a number of birds of prey
  • Kite (geometry), a quadrilateral with reflection symmetry across a diagonal

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

  • Kite (.hack), from the video game series
  • Kite, a Hunter × Hunter character
  • Kite, in the TV series Extraterrestrial
  • Mr. Kite, a character on the American comedy children's television series Pee-wee's Playhouse

Film and television

  • Kite (film series), by Yasuomi Umetsu
  • Kite (1998 film), an original video animation
  • Kite (2014 film), a live action film
  • The Kite (2003 film), a Lebanese drama
  • Saranggola, or The Kite, a 1999 Filipino film
  • Kites (film), a 2010 Indian romantic action thriller
  • Patang (film) ('The Kite'), a 1993 Indian film
  • "Kite" (Balamory), a 2002 television episode
  • "The Kite" (Shaun the Sheep), a 2007 television episode

Literature

  • Kite (novel) by Melvin Burgess, 1997
  • The Kite, a 1962 novel by W. O. Mitchell
  • , a 1980 novel by Romain Gary, translated as The Kites (2017)

Music

  • Kite (band), a Swedish synthpop duo
  • "Kite" (Arashi song), 2020
  • "Kite" (Kate Bush song), 1978
  • "Kite" (Benjamin Ingrosso song), 2024
  • "Saranggola (Ben&Ben song)" or Kite, 2025
  • Kite (Kirsty MacColl album), 1989
  • Kite (Stefanie Sun album), 2001
  • "Kite" (U2 song), 2000
  • "Kite", a song by Nick Heyward from the 1993 album From Monday to Sunday
  • "Kites" (song), by Simon Dupree, 1967
  • "Kites", a song by Reks from the 2016 album The Greatest X
  • "Kite Song", a song by Kevin Roth from "Faith, Hope and Anxiety", an episode of Shining Time Station

Ships

  • , the name of several ships of the Royal Navy
  • , a ship used in the Peary expedition to Greenland of 1891–1892
  • , the name of several ships of the U.S. Navy

Other uses

  • Kite (sail), or spinnaker
  • Kite (sailboat), an American sailboat design
  • Kite (surname), including a list of people with the name
  • Kite, Georgia, U.S., a place
  • Kite, Kentucky, U.S., a place
  • Kite, any aircraft, in RAF slang
  • Kite and dart tiling, in geometry
  • KITE (AM), a radio station (1410 AM) licensed to Victoria, Texas, U.S.
  • KITE (Kansas City), a radio station licensed to Kansas City, Missouri, which held the call sign KITE from 1938 until 1942
  • KNAL (FM), a radio station in Texas (93.3 FM) licensed to Port Lavaca, U.S., call sign KITE 2001–2014
  • KiTE, KGiSL Institute of Technology in Coimbatore, India
  • KITE Kerala, Kerala Infrastructure and Technology for Education, an Indian education company
  • Kite Pharma, an American biotechnology company
  • Alpi Pioneer 300 Kite, an Italian light-sport aircraft design
  • Wright GB Kite, an electric single-decker bus

See also

  • Index of kite articles
  • Kiting (disambiguation)
  • Kiteboarding, a sport using wind power with a large power kite
  • Desert kite, a dry stone wall structure
  • Kite shield a type of shield