Raid, RAID or Raids may refer to:

Attack

  • Raid (military), a sudden attack without the intent to hold ground
  • 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
  • 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
  • Union raid, when an outsider trade union takes over the membership of an existing union

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

  • Raid (1947 film), an East German film
  • Raid (2003 film), a 2003 Finnish film
  • The Raid (2011 film), an Indonesian action and period crime thriller
  • The Raid 2, its 2014 sequel
  • Raid (2018 film), an Indian period crime thriller by Raj Kumar Gupta
  • Raid 2 (2025 film), its sequel
  • Raid (2023 film)

Computing

  • RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks), a data storage technology providing redundancy

Gaming

  • Raid (video games), a type of mission in a video game where a large number of people combine forces to defeat a powerful enemy
  • Silent Assault, also known as Raid, a Nintendo Entertainment System title released by Sachen in 1989
  • Raid over Moscow, a 1984 computer game re-released as Raid
  • Raid: World War II, a 2017 computer game
  • Raid: Shadow Legends, a 2018 mobile game
  • Raid, in context of Twitch or other live streaming services, bringing a group of viewers from one channel to a target channel

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

  • Raid (band), a Tennessee-based band, who helped pioneer the Vegan straight edge movement
  • "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

Sports

  • Raid (boating), a leisure pursuit combining sailing and rowing
  • Rally raid, a form of off-road motorsport
  • Rebreather Association of International Divers, a dive training organization

People

  • Johan Raid (1885–1964), Estonian politician and government minister
  • Kaarin Raid (1942–2014), Estonian director, theatre pedagogue and actor
  • Kaljo Raid (1921–2005), Estonian composer

Other uses

  • RAID (French Police unit), ', an anti-terrorist unit of the French National Police
  • Raid (insecticide), a consumer insecticide marketed by S. C. Johnson & Son
  • Real-Time Adversarial Intelligence & Decision-making "RAID", a DARPA project to perform predictive analysis of enemy behavior
  • RAID (in mental health), Reinforce Appropriate, Implode Disruptive, is a positive psychology least restrictive practice approach for working with people who exhibit challenging behavior
  • Raids, Manche, France
  • Risks, Assumptions, Issues and Dependencies, a project management technique called "RAID log"

See also

  • The Raid (disambiguation)
  • Raider (disambiguation)
  • Raiding (disambiguation)
  • Raid 2 (disambiguation)
  • Raed (Arabic: '), a given name (including a list of people with the name)
  • Raid dingue, a 2016 French comedy film