A trap is a device used for trapping animals.

Trap or TRAP may also refer to:

Art and entertainment

Films and television

  • Trap (2015 film), a Filipino film
  • Trap (2024 film), an American film by M. Night Shyamalan
  • Traps (1985 film), an Australian film by John Hughes
  • Traps (1994 film), an Australian film by Pauline Chan
  • A Trap, a 1997 Polish film
  • Trap (TV series), a 2019 South Korean television series
  • Traps (TV series), a 1994 American police family drama

Music

  • Trap music, a subgenre of hip hop that originated in the 1990s in the Southeastern United States
  • EDM trap music, a subgenre of electronic dance music that originated in the 2010s
  • Trap (EP), debut by Henry, 2013
  • Trap (Dead Man Ray album), 2000
  • "Trap" (Shakira song) (featuring Maluma), 2018
  • "Trap", a song by Elizaveta from Messenger
  • "The Trap", a song from Playland by Johnny Marr
  • "The Trap", a song from Good & Evil by Tally Hall
  • Traps (album), 2012 by Jaill
  • "Traps", a single from the Bloc Party album Alpha Games, 2021
  • Traps, a stage name used by the drummer Buddy Rich

Other uses in art and entertainment

  • Trap (novel), by Peter Mathers, 1966
  • Traps (Scott novel), a 2013 novel by MacKenzie Scott
  • A Dangerous Game (novel), a 1956 novel by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, known as Traps in the United States
  • Claptrap, a fictional character from the Borderlands video game series
  • Trap room, a part of a theatre
  • Treasury Relief Art Project (1935–39), a New Deal art project

Biology and medicine

  • Trapezius, a muscle
  • Tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase, a metalloenzyme involved in bone formation
  • Mediator (coactivator) or thyroid hormone receptor-associated proteins
  • TNF-related activation protein, also known as CD40 ligand
  • Tripartite ATP-independent periplasmic transporter, in prokaryotes
  • trp RNA-binding attenuation protein, in bacilli
  • US TRAP laws ("Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers")
  • TNF receptor associated periodic syndrome (TRAPS)
  • Twin reversed arterial perfusion, a twin pregnancy abnormality

Games

  • Trap (chess)
  • Trap (poker), a strategy
  • Trap pass, see Glossary of contract bridge terms

Places

  • Tarap, Attock, a village in Pakistan
  • Trap, Mogila, a village in North Macedonia
  • Trap, Carmarthenshire, a hamlet in Wales, United Kingdom
  • Trap Grounds, a nature reserve in Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Science and technology

  • Chemical trap, a chemical compound that is used to detect unstable compounds
  • Magnetic trap, the use of magnetic fields to isolate atoms or particles
  • Petroleum trap, a geological structure that forms a petroleum reservoir
  • Social trap, a psychological system where people, operating for short-term individual gains, lead to long-term group losses
  • Trap rock, any dark-colored, fine-grained, non-granitic igneous rock
  • Trap and trace device, records any number called by, or calling, a particular telephone
  • Trap (plumbing), a pipe to prevent the release of gases
  • Trap (printing), a commercial-printing technique to overcome registration problem

Computing

  • Interrupt, a request for the processor to interrupt executing code
  • A type of Simple Network Management Protocol Protocol Data Unit used to report an alert or other asynchronous event about a managed subsystem
  • Intercepting normal method calls via a proxy object

Sports

  • Neutral zone trap, an ice hockey defensive strategy
  • Sand trap, a type of bunker (golf)
  • Starting Traps, the equipment that racing greyhounds start a race from
  • Trap shooting
  • Triathlon Association of the Philippines, the governing body for the sport in the Philippines

Transportation

  • Trap (car), a secret compartment in an automobile
  • Trap (carriage), a type of horse-drawn carriage
  • Traffic-related air pollution

Other uses

  • Trapdoor
  • Operation Trap, code name of a large-scale Soviet offensive operation against the Mujahideen supply base of Karkari-Sharshari
  • Tactical Recovery of Aircraft and Personnel, a U.S. military term for a rescue mission to retrieve a downed aircraft
  • Training-Repayment-Agreement Provision, a part of an employment bond or contract which stipulates that the cost of on-the-job training will be borne by the employee

See also

  • Ambush
  • Booby trap
  • Sand trap (disambiguation)
  • The Trap (disambiguation)
  • Trapped (disambiguation)
  • Trapper (disambiguation)