Sprite commonly refers to:

  • Sprite (computer graphics), a smaller bitmap composited onto another by hardware or software
  • Sprite (drink), a lemon-lime beverage produced by the Coca-Cola Company
  • Sprite (folklore), a type of legendary creature including elves, fairies, and pixies

Sprite may also refer to:

Comics

  • Sprite (Eternal), a fictional member of the race of Eternals in the Marvel Universe
  • Sprite (manga), a 2009 Japanese manga series
  • Sprite, alias of the Marvel Comics character Kitty Pryde
  • Sprite (Marvel Comics), alias of the Marvel Comics character Jia Jing
  • Sprite comic, a webcomic that consists primarily of computer sprites from video games

Computing and technology

  • Sprite (computer graphics), an image integrated into a larger scene
  • Sprite (operating system), an operating system developed at the University of California, Berkeley
  • SPRITE (spacecraft), a proposed Saturn atmospheric probe mission
  • SPRITE infrared detector, a specialist detector device using a process known as signal processing in the element
  • De Havilland Sprite, a British rocket engine

Vehicles

  • Sprite (motorcycle), a historical British make of motorcycle
  • Sprite-class tanker, a class of spirit tankers of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary
  • Austin-Healey Sprite, a British car
  • Austin-Healey Sebring Sprite, a modification
  • Practavia Sprite, a British two-seat home-built training or touring aircraft
  • Schweizer SGS 1-36 Sprite, an American sailplane design

Zoology

  • Sprite butterflies, certain skipper butterfly genera in subfamily Pyrginae, tribe Celaenorrhinini:
  • Celaenorrhinus (typical sprites)
  • Katreus (giant scarce sprite)
  • Loxolexis (scarce sprites)
  • Sedge sprite, a species of damselfly in the family Coenagrionidae
  • Sprite possum, an extinct marsupial

Other

  • Sprite (lightning), a weather phenomenon.
  • Sprites (band), from the U.S.
  • "Sprite", a song by Beat Crusaders on the album Sexcite!
  • Sprite melon, a type of sweet melon cultivated in North Carolina
  • Sprite (Dungeons & Dragons)
  • Sprites Ward, Ipswich, Suffolk, England
  • Water sprite, the freshwater fern Ceratopteris thalictroides

See also

  • Sea Sprite (disambiguation)
  • Spirit (disambiguation)
  • Sprit, other name for Spritsail