ace An ace is a playing card, die or domino with a single pip. In the standard French deck, an ace has a single suit symbol (a heart, diamond, spade, or a club) located in the middle of the card, sometimes large and decorated, especially in the ...

is a playing card. Ace(s), ACE(S) and variants may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Awards

* ACE Awards (Award for Cable Excellence)

Comics

* ''

Ace Comics ''Ace Comics'' was a comic book series published by David McKay Publications between 1937 and 1949 — starting just before the Golden Age of Comic Books. The title reprinted syndicated newspaper strips owned by King Features Syndicate, followi ...

'', a 1937-1959 comic book series * Ace Magazines (comics), a 1940-1956 a comic-book and pulp-magazine publishing company

Music

Groups

Ace (band) Ace were a British rock band who enjoyed moderate success in the 1970s. Their members included Paul Carrack, who later became famous as a vocalist for Mike + The Mechanics and as a solo artist. Ace were perhaps best known for their hit sin ...

, a 1970s British rock group *

The Aces (blues band) The Aces was led by the guitarist brothers Louis and Dave Myers, who were from Byhalia, Mississippi. Career The Little Boys were created by the Myers brothers. The band had several renames after Junior Wells and Fred Below joined.Vladimir, Bog ...

, a 1950s–1970s American group *

The Aces (indie pop band) The Aces (formerly The Blue Aces) are an American alternative pop band from Provo, Utah. The band has four members: guitarist Katie Henderson, bassist McKenna Petty, and sisters Alisa Ramirez (drums) and Cristal Ramirez (lead vocals and guitars) ...

, a 2010s American group * The Aces (Jamaican group), a 1965–1980s group, associated with Desmond Dekker * A.C.E (South Korean band), a South Korean boy group * The Aces (rock and roll band), a British group formed in the 1950s

Labels

Ace Records (United Kingdom) Ace Records Ltd. is a British record label founded in 1978. Initially the company only gained permission from the similarly named label based in Mississippi to use the name in the UK, but eventually also acquired the rights to publish their r ...

Ace Records (United States) Ace Records was a record label that was started in August 1955 in Jackson, Mississippi, by Johnny Vincent, with Teem Records as its budget subsidiary. History Ace also had the Vin label. Its records were distributed independently until 1962 ...

Albums and songs

* ''Ace'' (Bob Weir album) * ''Ace'' (Ian Van Dahl album) * ''Aces'' (album), by Suzy Bogguss ** "Aces" (song), by Suzy Bogguss * ''Ace'' (Scooter album) * ''Ace'' (Taemin EP)

Video games

* ''A.C.E.

Another Century's Episode is a 2005 third-person shooter video game published by Banpresto in Japan for the PlayStation 2. The player controls a mecha, mech from one of nine different real robot, anime robot franchises to destroy opposing forces before they steal a prized ...

'', a 2005 video game for the PlayStation 2

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

Ace Cinema The Ace Cinema, originally the Grosvenor Cinema and now known as the Zoroastrian Centre, is a Grade II* listed Art Deco Art Deco, short for the French (), is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design that first Art Deco i ...

, cinema in the London Borough of Harrow * ''Ace'' (film) * ''ACE'' (games magazine) * ''Ace'' (musical) 2006 * Ace (''Wild Cards''), a class of characters in the ''Wild Cards'' science fiction universe

Aviation

Ace Aircraft Manufacturing Company The Ace Aircraft Manufacturing Company was established in Wichita, Kansas in 1929 by Orland Corben to market the world's first homebuilt aircraft, a machine of his own design called the Baby Ace. The enterprise did not last long before US regul ...

ACE Aviation Holdings ACE Aviation Holdings Inc. was a Canadian holding company that was the former parent company of Air Canada. It was headquartered in Montreal. In 2012, the company signified its intent to dissolve, and was dissolved in 2024. History ACE Aviation ...

, former parent company of Air Canada * ''

Ace Online ''Ace Online'' or ''AirRivals'' is a free-to-play massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) 3D shooter developed by MasangSoft Inc. and owned by YD Online Corp. History In North America, the game was previously released as ''Space Cowboy Online'' ...

'', a flight-based online role-playing game *

ACES Colombia ACES ( Spanish acronym: ''Aerolíneas Centrales de Colombia'') was an airline with its headquarters in the Torre del Café in Medellín, Colombia and founded on August 30, 1971, by a group of 13 Colombian entrepreneurs, amongst them, most notabl ...

, Aerolíneas Centrales de Colombia, a defunct airline * ''Ace'' (video game), stylized as ''ACE'', a 1985 flight simulator video game by Cascade Games *

Aircraft Engineering Corporation The Aircraft Engineering Corp (Ace) was founded in New York in 1919. The company was sold to Horace Keane of Long Island, New York in 1920. In 1930 it was operating in Oakland, California Oakland is a city in the East Bay region of t ...

, now defunct *

Aviation Centre of Excellence The Aviation Centre of Excellence (ACE) is the aviation department facility for Confederation College. The building consists of two hangars, classrooms, shops, labs, and offices for the three aviation programs available at the School of Aviation ...

, a department of Confederation College in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada *

Aviation combat element In the United States Marine Corps, the aviation combat element or air combat element (ACE) is the aviation component of the Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF). The ACE is task organized to perform the six functions of Marine Corps aviation in ...

, the air arm of the US Marines Air-Ground Task Force *

Edel Ace The Edel Ace is a South Korean single-place, paraglider that was designed and produced by Edel Paragliders of Gwangju Gwangju (; ), formerly romanized as Kwangju, is South Korea's list of cities in South Korea, sixth-largest metropolis. I ...

, a South Korean paraglider design *

Flying ace A flying ace, fighter ace or air ace is a military aviation, military aviator credited with shooting down a certain minimum number of enemy aircraft during aerial combat; the exact number of aerial victories required to officially qualify as an ...

, a distinction given to fighter pilots after shooting down a certain number of enemy aircraft in combat * IATA airport code of

Lanzarote Airport César Manrique-Lanzarote Airport (), commonly known as Lanzarote Airport and also known as ''Arrecife Airport'', is the airport serving the island of Lanzarote in the Canary Islands. The airport is located in San Bartolomé, Las Palmas, south ...

in Canary Islands, Spain

Brands and enterprises

Accelerated Christian Education Accelerated Christian Education (also known as School of Tomorrow) is an American company which produces the Accelerated Christian Education (ACE, styled by the company as A.C.E.) school curriculum structured and based around a literal interpret ...

, an educational products company *

Ace Books Ace Books is a publisher of science fiction (SF) and fantasy books founded in New York City in 1952 by A. A. Wyn, Aaron A. Wyn. It began as a genre publisher of mystery fiction, mysteries and western (genre), westerns, and soon branched out int ...

, 1952–present, an American publisher of science fiction and fantasy *

Ace (brand) Tide is an American brand of laundry detergent manufactured and marketed by Procter & Gamble. Introduced in 1946, it is the highest-selling detergent brand in the world, with an estimated 14.3 percent of the global market. Background The hous ...

, Latin American brand name for Tide detergent * Ace Cinemas, an Australian cinema chain *

Ace Hardware Ace Hardware Corporation is an American hardware retailers' cooperative based in Oak Brook, Illinois, United States. It is the largest non-grocery retail cooperative in the United States. Founded on October 25, 1924, as "Ace Stores", the co ...

, an American retailers' cooperative *

ACE Limited Chubb Limited is an American–Swiss company incorporated in Zürich, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) where it is a component of the S&P 500. Chubb is a global provider of insurance products covering property and casualty, accide ...

, a Swiss insurance company *

Ace Radio Ace Radio Broadcasters is an Australian media company. Formed in 1984, it operates 21 commercial radio stations in Victoria and southern New South Wales, as well as the digital marketing agency Ace Digital and ''The Weekly Advertiser'', a free ...

, an Australian company *

ACeS An ace is a playing card. Ace(s), ACE(S) and variants may also refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Awards * ACE Awards (Award for Cable Excellence) Comics * ''Ace Comics'', a 1937-1959 comic book series * Ace Magazines (comics), a 1940- ...

, a regional satellite-telecommunications company based in Jakarta, Indonesia * Aces Studio, a former video game company * ACE Team, a Chilean video game company *

Ace Tone Ace Electronic Industries Inc., or Ace Tone, was a manufacturer of electronic musical instruments, including electronic organs, analogue drum machines, and electronic drums, as well as amplifiers and effects pedals. Founded in 1960 by Ikutaro Ka ...

, a musical instrument company * Action Computer Enterprise, a defunct microcomputer company * Action Construction Equipment, an Indian company *

Rockman Ace Scholz Research & Development, Inc. was the name of the company founded by musician and engineer Tom Scholz to design and manufacture music technology products. Scholz is an MIT-trained engineer who developed many of his skills as a product desi ...

, a guitar amplifier in the Rockman series

Education

* Alternative Center for Excellence, a school in Danbury, Connecticut, US * American College of Education, an online college based in Indianapolis, Indiana, US

Government

ACE Electoral Knowledge Network The ACE Electoral Knowledge Network is a web portal with information on elections designed to meet the needs of people working in the electoral field. Goals The goal of the ACE network is to provide knowledge to people working in the field ele ...

, a web portal *

Agriculture in Concert with the Environment Agriculture in Concert with the Environment (ACE) is a program of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), administered cooperatively with United States Department of Agriculture's Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SA ...

, a US Environmental Protection Agency program *

American Clean Energy and Security Act The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (ACES) was an energy bill in the 111th United States Congress () that would have established a variant of an emissions trading plan similar to the European Union Emission Trading Scheme. The bil ...

(2009) * Automation of Central Excise and Service Tax (ACES), an alternative name for India's Central Excise Mission Mode Project

Military

Ace (military) Ace, when used in the context of military propaganda, denotes a successful military professional who has accumulated a meaningfully measurable statistic such as aircraft shot down, tanks destroyed, tonnage sunk, or a number of successful sniper sh ...

, a military aviator credited with shooting down a set number of enemy aircraft ** Panzer ace, an ahistorical, popular culture term to describe successful German tank commanders * ACES Meet, a multilateral air exercise * Allied Command Europe, central command of NATO forces in Europe * Galil ACE, an assault rifle * HMS ''Ace'' (P414), a British submarine * M9 Armored Combat Earthmover, a tracked vehicle *

United States Army Corps of Engineers The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is the military engineering branch of the United States Army. A direct reporting unit (DRU), it has three primary mission areas: Engineer Regiment, military construction, and civil wo ...

Organizations

Aberdeen Community Energy Aberdeen Community Energy operate a micro hydro scheme at Tillydrone on the River Don, Aberdeen. History Aberdeen Community Energy (ACE) is the trading name of Donside Community Hydro Limited, a Community Benefit Society set up in 2015 to build a ...

Advisory Committee of Experts on Slavery The Advisory Committee of Experts on Slavery (ACE) was a permanent committee of the League of Nations, inaugurated in 1933. It was the first permanent slavery committee of the League of Nations, which was founded after a decade of work addre ...

, abolitionist organization at the League of Nations * Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment *

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals The Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals is an organization of Christian individuals that believes evangelicals have largely forgotten the foundations of the Christian Gospel and is dedicated to calling on the Protestant churches, especially those ...

* Alternatives for Community and Environment, a Boston environmental justice organization *

American Cinema Editors Founded in 1950, American Cinema Editors (ACE) is an honorary society of film editing, film editors who are voted in based on the qualities of professional achievements, their education of others, and their dedication to editing. Members use the ...

American Coaster Enthusiasts American Coaster Enthusiasts (ACE) is a non-profit organization focusing on the enjoyment, knowledge, and preservation of roller coasters as well as recognition of some as architectural and engineering landmarks. Dues-paying members receive th ...

American College of Epidemiology The American College of Epidemiology (ACE) is an American organization incorporated in 1979 to support and promote the work of American epidemiologists. It is based in Raleigh, North Carolina. Members of the American College of Epidemiology are ...

* American Copy Editors Society *

American Council on Education The American Council on Education (ACE) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) U.S. higher education association established in 1918. ACE's members are the leaders of approximately 1,600 accredited, degree-granting colleges and universities and higher educati ...

Animal Charity Evaluators Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE), formerly known as Effective Animal Activism (EAA), is a US-based charity evaluator and effective altruism-focused nonprofit founded in 2012. ACE evaluates animal charities and compares the effectiveness of their ...

* Anime Contents Expo, a trade fair *

Arts Council England Arts Council England is an arm's length non-departmental public body of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Department for Culture, Media and Sport. It is also a registered charity. It was formed in 1994 when the Arts Council o ...

* Association for Comparative Economic Studies *

Association for Consciousness Exploration Association may refer to: *Club (organization), an association of two or more people united by a common interest or goal *Trade association, an organization founded and funded by businesses that operate in a specific industry *Voluntary associatio ...

Association for Consultancy and Engineering The Association for Consultancy and Engineering (ACE) is a British business association in the field of consultancy and engineering. ACE represents around 400 member companies, large and small, that provide professional engineering expertise in ...

Association of European Film Archives and Cinematheques The Association of European Cinematheques (French: Association des Cinémathèques Européennes - ACE) is an affiliation of 49 European national and regional film archives founded in 1991. Its role is to safeguard the European film heritage and mak ...

(French: ''Association des Cinémathèques Européennes'') *

Association of Latin Entertainment Critics The Association of Latin Entertainment Critics (Asociación de Cronistas de Espectáculos de Nueva York, in Spanish) is a nonprofit cultural organization founded on December 12, 1967. The organization has bestowed the Latin ACE Awards (Premios AC ...

(Spanish: ''Asociación de Cronistas de Espectáculos de Nueva York'') * Assyria Council of Europe, a lobbying organization based in Brussels * Astronaute Club Européen, a French space tourism association *

Australian College of Educators The Australian College of Educators (ACE) is an Australian national professional association for educators. Membership is open to all professional educators working in the early childhood, school, and tertiary education sectors, as well as to ed ...

* Auxiliary Campus Enterprises and Services, an organization at Alfred College, US

People and fictional characters

* Ace (musician), guitarist with Skunk Anansie * Ace (name), includes people and fictional characters with the given name, nickname, surname, ring name or stage name * Warren Furman, Ace from ''Gladiators''

Places

* Ace, ancient name of

Acre, Israel Acre ( ), known in Hebrew as Akko (, ) and in Arabic as Akka (, ), is a List of cities in Israel, city in the coastal plain region of the Northern District (Israel), Northern District of Israel. The city occupies a strategic location, sitting ...

* ACE Basin, the estuaries of the Ashepoo, Combahee and Edisto Rivers in South Carolina, United States * Aces (parish), Candamo, Spain * Aces (river), a river of Asia * Ace, Texas, United States, an unincorporated community

Science and technology

Aerospace

Advanced Composition Explorer Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE or Explorer 71) is a NASA Explorer program satellite and space exploration mission to study matter comprising energetic particles from the solar wind, the interplanetary medium, and other sources. Real-ti ...

, a NASA satellite *

Advanced Crew Escape Suit The Advanced Crew Escape Suit (ACES), or "pumpkin suit", is a full pressure suit that Space Shuttle crews began wearing after STS-64, for the ascent and entry portions of flight. The suit is a direct descendant of the U.S. Air Force high-alti ...

, an astronaut suit *

Advanced Cryogenic Evolved Stage The Advanced Cryogenic Evolved Stage (ACES) was a proposed liquid oxygen/liquid hydrogen upper-stage for use on a number of different launch vehicles produced by Boeing, Lockheed Martin, United Launch Alliance (ULA). During the last five years ...

, a proposed rocket 2nd stage for ULA * Asia Cellular Satellite system, a precursor of the Indonesian satellite company PT Pasifik Satelit Nusantara * Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment, a project of the Canadian satellite

SCISAT-1 SCISAT-1 is a Canadian satellite designed to make observations of the Earth's atmosphere. Its main instruments are an optical Fourier transform infrared spectrometer, the ACE-FTS Instrument, and an ultraviolet spectrophotometer, MAESTRO. These d ...

* Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space, a European Space Agency project

Biology, chemistry, and healthcare

ACE inhibitor Angiotensin-converting-enzyme inhibitors (ACE inhibitors) are a class of medication used primarily for the treatment of high blood pressure and heart failure. This class of medicine works by causing relaxation of blood vessels as well as a decr ...

, a drug that lowers blood pressure * Ace K, acesulfame potassium, an artificial sweetener * A.C.E. mixture, an historical anesthetic *

Acepromazine Acepromazine, acetopromazine, or acetylpromazine (commonly known as ACP, Ace, or by the trade names Atravet or Acezine 2, number depending on mg/ml dose) is a phenothiazine derivative antipsychotic drug. It was used in humans during the 1950s as ...

, an antipsychotic drug used primarily in animals * ACES (buffer), one of Good's buffers *

ACES (nutritional supplement) Antioxidants are compounds that inhibit oxidation, a chemical reaction that can produce free radicals. Autoxidation leads to degradation of organic compounds, including living matter. Antioxidants are frequently added to industrial products, ...

, containing vitamins A, C, E and selenium * ACE unit (Acute Care of Elderly), a type of hospital facility * Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination *

Adverse childhood experiences Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) include childhood emotional, physical, or sexual abuse and household dysfunction during childhood. The categories are verbal abuse, physical abuse, contact sexual abuse, a battered mother/father, household sub ...

Angiotensin-converting enzyme Angiotensin-converting enzyme (), or ACE, is a central component of the renin–angiotensin system (RAS), which controls blood pressure by regulating the volume of fluids in the body. It converts the hormone angiotensin I to the active vasocon ...

, a central component of the renin–angiotensin system (RAS), which controls blood pressure

Computing

* Access Control Entry, part of an access control list *

ACE (compressed file format) In computing, ACE is a proprietary data compression archive file format developed by Marcel Lemke, and later bought by e-merge GmbH. The peak of its popularity was 1999–2001, when it provided slightly better compression rates than RAR, which ...

Ace (editor) Ace (from Ajax.org Cloud9 Editor) is a standalone code editor written in JavaScript. The goal is to create a web-based code editor that matches and extends the features, usability, and performance of existing native editors such as TextMate, V ...

, a code editor written in JavaScript *

ACE (editor) Ace (from Ajax.org Cloud9 Editor) is a standalone code editor written in JavaScript. The goal is to create a web-based code editor that matches and extends the features, usability, and performance of existing native editors such as TextMate, V ...

, a desktop-based collaborative editor * ACE (genomic file format) *

Acehnese language Acehnese (Jawi alphabet, Jawi: ) is an Austronesian languages, Austronesian language natively spoken by the Acehnese people in Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia. This language is also spoken by Acehnese descendants in some parts of Malaysia like Yan, Ke ...

(ISO 639 code) * ACES (computational chemistry), a software package * Adaptive Communication Environment, an open-source network-programming framework * Advanced Computerized Execution System, a stock-trading system *

Advanced Computing Environment The Advanced Computing Environment (ACE) was defined by an industry consortium in the early 1990s to be the next generation commodity computing platform, the successor to personal computers based on Intel's 32-bit instruction set architecture. T ...

, an early 1990s initiative for commodity computing hardware *

Agent-based computational economics Agent-based computational economics (ACE) is the area of computational economics that studies economic processes, including whole economies, as dynamic systems of interacting agents. As such, it falls in the paradigm of complex adaptive systems. ...

Arbitrary code execution In computer security, arbitrary code execution (ACE) is an attacker's ability to run any commands or code of the attacker's choice on a target machine or in a target process. An arbitrary code execution vulnerability is a security flaw in softwa ...

* ASCII Compatible Encoding, a prefix related to

internationalized domain name An internationalized domain name (IDN) is an Internet domain name that contains at least one label displayed in software applications, in whole or in part, in non-Latin script or alphabet or in the Latin alphabet-based characters with diacrit ...

s *

Asynchronous Compute Engine Graphics Core Next (GCN) is the codename for a series of microarchitectures and an instruction set architecture that were developed by AMD for its GPUs as the successor to its TeraScale microarchitecture. The first product featuring GCN was lau ...

, a component defined in AMD's Graphics Core Next for ATI-type products *

Automatic Computing Engine The Automatic Computing Engine (ACE) was a British early Electronic storage, electronic Serial computer, serial stored-program computer design by Alan Turing. Turing completed the ambitious design in late 1945, having had experience in the yea ...

, a 1952 British computer * Automatic Content Extraction, an information-extraction technology-development program *

Jupiter Ace The Jupiter Ace by Jupiter Cantab was a British home computer released in 1982. The Ace differed from other microcomputers of the time in that its programming environment used Forth instead of the more popular BASIC. This difference, along w ...

, a 1980s British computer

Other uses in science and technology

Academy Color Encoding System The Academy Color Encoding System (ACES) is a color image encoding system created under the auspices of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. ACES is characterised by a color accurate workflow, with "seamless interchange of high quali ...

(ACES), a proposed color image encoding *

Accumulated cyclone energy Accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) is a metric used to compare overall activity of tropical cyclones, utilizing the available records of windspeeds at six-hour intervals to synthesize storm duration and strength into a single index value. The ACE ...

, commonly known as (ACE), metric used by various agencies to express the energy released by a tropical cyclone *

ACE (cable system) Africa Coast to Europe (ACE) is an optical-fiber submarine cable system serving 24 countries on the Europe , west coast and south Africa, managed by a consortium of 20 members. The ACE cable connects more than 450 million people, either dir ...

, a submarine communications cable * ACE experiment, the Antiproton Cell Experiment hosted at CERN *

Ace (quark model) A quark () is a type of elementary particle and a fundamental constituent of matter. Quarks combine to form composite particles called hadrons, the most stable of which are protons and neutrons, the components of atomic nuclei. All commonly o ...

, an obsolete term for quark *

Aggregative Contingent Estimation Aggregative Contingent Estimation (ACE) was a program of the Office of Incisive Analysis (OIA) at the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA). The program ran from June 2010 until June 2015. History The broad program announcemen ...

, a program of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency * Alternating conditional expectations, an algorithm in nonparametric regression. * Alternative Chassis Engineering, a UK bus manufacturer, builder of the ACE Cougar *

Attempto Controlled English Attempto Controlled English (ACE) is a controlled natural language, i.e. a subset of standard English with a restricted syntax and restricted semantics described by a small set of construction and interpretation rules. It has been under developme ...

, a controlled natural language from the University of Zurich

Sports

Terminology

Ace (baseball) In baseball, an ace is a starting pitcher considered the best pitcher on a team's starting rotation. Barring injury or exceptional circumstances, a team's ace typically starts on Opening Day. In addition, aces are usually preferred to start ...

, a team's best starting pitcher * Ace formation, in American football * Ace (golf), a hole in one * Ace (pickleball), a serve that is not returned by the receiver * Ace (tennis), a point won by the server without contest

Teams

Alaska Aces (ECHL) The Alaska Aces, known as the Anchorage Aces until 2003, were a professional ice hockey team in Anchorage, Alaska. Home games were played at Sullivan Arena in Anchorage. The Aces won three Kelly Cup championships, with their last championshi ...

, an American ice hockey team *

Alaska Aces (PBA) The Alaska Aces were a professional basketball team in the Philippine Basketball Association since 1986 PBA season, 1986 under the ownership of Alaska Milk Corporation (AMC) and the owner of 14 PBA championships, tied with the Magnolia Hotsho ...

, a Philippine basketball team * Alexandria Aces, a defunct American baseball team in Louisiana * Asheville Aces, a defunct American ice hockey team *

Belle Vue Aces The Belle Vue Aces are a British speedway club, based in Manchester. The club hold the record of having won the top tier League championship 14 times. They currently compete in the SGB Premiership, racing at The National Speedway Stadium, wit ...

, an English motorcycle speedway team *

Cornwall Aces The Cornwall Aces were the American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate of the National Hockey League's Quebec Nordiques from 1993 to 1995 and the relocated Colorado Avalanche in 1995–96. They were based in the eastern Ontario city of Cornwall and p ...

, a Canadian ice hockey team playing 1993-1996 * Dallas Aces, the world's first professional bridge team * Evansville Purple Aces, a college team of the University of Evansville *

Las Vegas Aces The Las Vegas Aces are an American professional basketball team based in the Las Vegas metropolitan area. The Aces compete in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) as a member of the Western Conference. The team plays its home game ...

, an American basketball team * Lower Merion High School Aces, the athletic teams at the school in suburban Philadelphia *

Melbourne Aces The Melbourne Aces are a professional baseball team based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia that competed in the Australian Baseball League. Their home field is the Melbourne Ballpark in Altona. History On 20 August 2010 it was announced ...

, an Australian baseball team founded 2009 * Northeast League Aces, a Canadian-American baseball team *

Quebec Aces The Quebec Aces, also known in French as Les As de Québec, were an amateur and later a professional men's ice hockey team from Quebec City, Quebec. History The Aces were founded in 1928 by Anglo-Canadian Pulp and Paper Mills, the name Aces stan ...

, a Canadian ice hockey team playing 1928-1971 *

Reno Aces The Reno Aces are a Minor League Baseball team of the Pacific Coast League (PCL) and the Triple-A (baseball), Triple-A affiliate of the Arizona Diamondbacks. They are located in Reno, Nevada, and play their home games at Greater Nevada Field, w ...

, an American baseball team in Nevada *

Victoria Aces The Victoria Aces are an Australian baseball team who compete in the Claxton Shield Baseball Championship. One of the founding teams of the Claxton Shield in 1934, they competed until 1988. Thereafter the Claxton Shield was awarded to the winne ...

, an Australian baseball team founded 1934

Transportation

Automotive

AC Ace The AC Ace is a sports car produced by AC Cars of Thames Ditton, England, from 1953 until 1963. About 220 AC Aces and 466 Ace-Bristol cars were produced during its 10 year run. History AC came back to the market after the Second World War with ...

, a 1953-1963 English car * Ace Motor Corporation, a 1919–1927 American motorcycle company * Ace (1913 automobile), a 1912-1916 British car * Ace (1920 automobile), a 1920-1922 American car *

Atlantic City Expressway The Atlantic City Expressway, officially numbered, but Unsigned highway, unsigned, as Route 446 and abbreviated A.C. Expressway, ACE, or ACX, and known locally as the Expressway, is a Controlled-access highway, controlled-access toll roa ...

, a New Jersey toll road which is the main route between Atlantic City and Philadelphia *

Tata Ace The Tata Ace is a model of mini truck manufactured by Tata Motors which was launched in 2005. History In December 2000, Girish Wagh was given a brief by Ravi Kant (Indian executive), Ravi Kant to create a novel lightweight truck line that woul ...

, an Indian mini-truck introduced 2005

Rail

Altamont Corridor Express The Altamont Corridor Express (ACE) is a commuter rail service in California, connecting Stockton and San Jose during peak hours only. ACE is named for the Altamont Pass, through which it runs. Service is managed by the San Joaquin Regional R ...

, a California train service *

Atlantic City Express Service The Atlantic City Express Service (ACES) was an inter-city rail service, operating from February 2009 until September 2011. It was operated by New Jersey Transit under contract and funded by the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority, with s ...

, a New York-New Jersey train service *

Atlantic Coast Express The ''Atlantic Coast Express'' (''ACE'') is an express passenger train in England that has operated at various times between London and seaside resorts in the South West England. It is currently operated as a summer only service by Great Wes ...

, an England train service *

EMD SD70ACe The EMD SD70 is a series of diesel-electric locomotives produced by the US company Electro-Motive Diesel. This locomotive family is an extension and improvement of the EMD SD60 series. Production commenced in late 1992 and since then over 5,700 ...

, an American diesel-electric locomotive commonly referred to as an "Ace" * Kintetsu 22600 series "Ace", a Japanese train type *

IND Eighth Avenue Line The IND Eighth Avenue Line is a rapid transit line in the B Division of the New York City Subway. Opened in 1932, it was the first line of the Independent Subway System (IND); as such, New Yorkers originally applied the ''Eighth Avenue Subwa ...

, New York City Subway line served by the A, C, and E trains

Other uses

* ''Ace'', a term for an

asexual Asexual or Asexuals may refer to: *Asexual reproduction **Asexual reproduction in starfish *Asexuality, the lack of sexual attraction to anyone or lack of interest in or desire for sexual activity. **Gray asexuality, the spectrum between asexualit ...

person * Action for Climate Empowerment, a United Nations term