A nap is a short period of sleep.

Nap or NAP may also refer to:

People

  • Henry Botterell (1896–2003), Canadian World War I fighter pilot nicknamed "Nap"
  • Nap Kloza (1903–1962), American baseball player and manager
  • Nap Lajoie (1874–1959), American Hall-of-Fame Major League Baseball player
  • Nap Milroy (1922–2012), Canadian ice hockey player
  • James Napoli (1911–1992), New York mobster nicknamed "Jimmy Nap"
  • Nap Reyes (1919–1995), Cuban-born Major League Baseball player
  • Nap Rucker (1884–1970), American Major League Baseball pitcher

Sports and games

  • Cleveland Naps, former name of Cleveland Guardians baseball team
  • Napoleon (card game) or Nap, a popular card game
  • Nap, a tipster's "racing certainty"

Other uses

  • Nap (fabric), the raised surface of velvet, etc.
  • "The Nap", an episode of TV sitcom Seinfeld
  • Nap TV, a Hungarian television production company

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Codes

  • Naples International Airport, IATA code NAP
  • Neapolitan language, ISO 639-2/3 code nap, spoken in southern Italy
  • Narragansett Pier Railroad, reporting mark NAP

Politics and government

  • National Action Party (disambiguation)
  • National action plan (disambiguation)
  • National Action Plan on the Elimination of Child Labour
  • National Adaptation Programme, required by the UK 2008 Climate Change Act
  • National Alliance Party (disambiguation)
  • National Alliance Party (Papua New Guinea), formed in 1995
  • National Allocation Plan, part of the European Union Emission Trading Scheme
  • National Archives of Pakistan
  • National Action Plan (Pakistan), to combat terrorism
  • National Awami Party, Pakistan, 1957-early 1970s
  • Network Against Prohibition, Australian drug law reform group
  • New Alliance Party, US, 1979–1993
  • Non-aggression principle, a tenet of libertarian politics
  • Non-aggression pact
  • Noninsured Assistance Program, a US program for farmers
  • North Australia Party
  • Nutrition Assistance for Puerto Rico

Science, technology, and medicine

  • Network access point, a public facility for connection between ISPs
  • Network Access Protection, a computer security technology
  • Nautical Archaeology Program of Texas A&M University
  • Amsterdam Ordnance Datum (Normaal Amsterdams Peil), a geodetic datum
  • Naphthylaminopropane, a monoamine-releasing drug

Other

  • Auteuil-Neuilly-Passy, an area of Paris sometimes abbreviated as NAP
  • Nagaland Armed Police, India
  • National Academies Press, a science publisher
  • National Association of Parliamentarians
  • Naval Aviation Pilot, an enlisted U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps pilot (until 1981)
  • Nebraska AIDS Project
  • New African Poets, a French hip hop group
  • Non-aggression Pact (band), an American urban-electro-industrial music group, abbreviated as N.A.P.
  • North American Pairs, an annual contract bridge competition
  • North AmeriCare Park, a former name of Sahlen Field, is a baseball park in Buffalo, New York
  • Noyautage des administrations publiques, an arm of the French Resistance

See also

  • Gnap (disambiguation)
  • Knap
  • Nape (disambiguation)
  • Napp (disambiguation)
  • Nappe (disambiguation)
  • Naps (disambiguation)