Zap or ZAP may refer to:

Places

  • Zap, North Dakota, U.S.
  • Zhuozhou East railway station, China Railway telegraph code ZAP
  • The Zap, now The Arch, a nightclub in Brighton, England
  • Great Zab, a river in Turkey and Iraq
  • Little Zab, a river in Iran and Iraq

Arts and entertainment

Comics

  • Zap Comix, an underground comics series founded by Robert Crumb in 1968

Fictional characters

  • Zap (G.I. Joe), in the G.I. Joe universe
  • Zap Rowsdower, in the 1990 film The Final Sacrifice
  • Zap Zodiac, a 2005 Beano comic strip character

Other

  • ZAP (satellite television), a digital satellite television operator in Portuguese-speaking sub-Saharan Africa
  • Zap! Snowboarding Trix, a 1997 video game
  • Z.A.P., a 2008 video game by GarageGames
  • "Zap", a 1986 instrumental by Eric Johnson from Tones
  • Zap.com, a 1998-2000 website run by Zapata Corporation, now known as HRG Group

Science and technology

  • ZAP File, a computer file extension
  • ZAP (software), a web application security tool
  • Zinc finger antiviral protein (ZAP) in mammals
  • Zoster-associated pain, a symptom of herpes zoster (shingles)
  • ZAP, an instruction mnemonic in IBM Basic assembly language
  • Zap Energy, an American company that aims to commercialize fusion power
  • zapping, rapidly flashing light

Transportation

  • ZAP (motor company), an American electric vehicle maker
  • Zap flap, a type of aircraft wing flap
  • Titan Airways (callsign)

Other uses

  • Zap (action), a form of political direct action
  • AGR-14 ZAP, a US Navy air-to-surface unguided rocket
  • Raye Hollitt (born 1964), American bodybuilder known as Zap on the TV show American Gladiators
  • Zapotec languages (ISO 639-3 and 639-2 codes), spoken in Mexico
  • Zenith Applied Philosophy, a New Zealand sect of Scientology
  • Zero Aggression Principle, a personal philosophy

See also

  • Zapp (disambiguation)
  • Zapper (disambiguation)
  • Záviš of Zápy or Záviš ze Zap (c. 1350–c. 1411), Bohemian theologian and composer
  • ZZZap!, a 1990s British TV programme for deaf children