Contra may refer to:

Places

Contra, Virginia Contra is an Unincorporated area#United States, unincorporated community in King and Queen County, Virginia, King and Queen County, Virginia, United States. References

Unincorporated communities in Virginia Unincorporated communities i ...

* Contra Costa Canal, an aqueduct in the U.S. state of California *

Contra Costa County, California Contra Costa County (; ''Contra Costa'', Spanish for 'Opposite Coast') is a county located in the U.S. state of California, in the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 1,165,927. Th ...

* Tenero-Contra, a municipality in the district of Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland

People

* Cosmin Contra (born 1975), Romanian football player * Contra (writer) (real name Margus Konnula; born 1974), Estonian poet and translator *

Contra (rapper) Çağdaş Terzi (born 23 October 1989), better known by his stage name Contra, is a Turkish people, Turkish rapper, singer and songwriter. He began his musical career with an album named ‘’Eleştiri’’. He became popular from the song ‘� ...

(real name Çağdaş Terzi; born 1989), Turkish rapper and songwriter

Arts, entertainment, and media

Games

* Contra (card game), an historical German card game also known as Kontraspiel * Contra (cards), a bid to double the stakes in many card games * ''Contra'' (series), a line of run-and-gun video games created by Konami ** ''Contra'' (video game), the original game, released in 1987

Music and dance

* ''Contra'' (album), the second album by Vampire Weekend * Contra (band), a band from Cleveland * "Contra" (song), a song by Logic *

Contra dance Contra dance (also contradance, contra-dance and other variant spellings) is a form of folk dance, folk dancing made up of long lines of couples. It has mixed origins from English country dance, Scottish country dance, and French dance styles in ...

, several folk dance styles in which couples dance in two facing lines of indefinite length

Film

* ''Contra'' (film), 2020 German film

Law and politics

Contra (citation signal) In law, a citation or introductory signal is a set of phrases or words used to clarify the authority (or significance) of a legal citation as it relates to a proposition. It is used in citations to present authorities and indicate how those au ...

, a term used in legal citations *

Contra account Debits and credits in double-entry bookkeeping are entries made in Account (accountancy), account ledgers to record changes in Value (economics), value resulting from business transactions. A debit entry in an account represents a transfer of ...

, or contra amount *

Contras In the history of Nicaragua, the Contras (Spanish: ''La contrarrevolución'', the counter-revolution) were the right-wing militias who waged anti-communist guerilla warfare (1979–1990) against the Marxist governments of the Sandinista Na ...

, Nicaraguan counter-revolutionaries opposed to the Sandinistas **

Iran–Contra affair The Iran–Contra affair (; ), also referred to as the Iran–Contra scandal, the Iran Initiative, or simply Iran–Contra, was a political scandal in the United States that centered on arms trafficking to Iran between 1981 and 1986, facilitat ...

, the Reagan administration selling weapons to Iran to fund the Contras

Musical instruments

Contra-alto clarinet The contra-alto clarinet is a large clarinet pitched a perfect fifth below the B♭ bass clarinet. It is a transposing instrument in E♭ sounding an octave and a major sixth below its written pitch, between the bass clarinet and the B♭ co ...

* Contrabass bugle, the lowest-pitched instrument in the drum and bugle corps hornline *

Contrabass clarinet The contrabass clarinet (also pedal clarinet, after the pedals of pipe organs) and contra-alto clarinet are the two largest members of the clarinet family that are in common usage. Modern contrabass clarinets are transposing instruments pitche ...

Contrabass saxophone The contrabass saxophone is the second-lowest-pitched extant member of the saxophone family proper. It is pitched in E♭ one octave below the baritone saxophone, which requires twice the length of tubing and bore width. This renders a very ...

Contrabassoon The contrabassoon, also known as the double bassoon, is a larger version of the bassoon, sounding an octave lower. Its technique is similar to its smaller cousin, with a few notable differences. Differences from the bassoon The Reed (mouthpie ...

, or double bassoon, a larger version of the bassoon sounding an octave lower * Subcontrabass saxophone

Other uses

* Contra (restaurant), a defunct Michelin-starred restaurant in New York City {{disambiguation