Raid, RAID or Raids may refer to:

Attack

Raid (military) Raiding, also known as depredation, is a military tactic or operational warfare mission which has a specific purpose. Raiders do not capture and hold a location, but quickly retreat to a previous defended position before enemy forces can respond i ...

, a sudden attack behind the enemy's lines without the intention of holding ground * Corporate raid, a type of hostile takeover in business * Panty raid, a prankish raid by male college students on the living quarters of female students to steal panties as trophies * Police raid, a police action involving the entering of a house with the intent to capture personnel or evidence, often taking place early in the morning * Union raid, when an outsider trade union takes over the membership of an existing union

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

* ''Raid'' (1947 film), an East German film * ''Raid'' (2003 film), a 2003 Finnish film * ''Raid'' (2018 film), an Indian period crime thriller

Gaming

* Raid (gaming), a type of mission in a video game where a large number of people combine forces to defeat a powerful enemy * ''Raid'' (video game), a Nintendo Entertainment System title released by Sachen in 1989 * ''

Raid over Moscow ''Raid Over Moscow'' (''Raid'' in some countries and on reissue) is a computer game by Access Software published in Europe by U.S. Gold for the Commodore 64 in 1984 and other microcomputers in 1985-1986. Released during the Cold War era, ''Raid ...

'', a 1984 computer game re-released as ''Raid'' * '' Raid: World War II'', a 2017 computer game * '' Raid: Shadow Legends'', a 2018 mobile game * Raid, in context of Twitch or other live streaming services, bringing a group of viewers to a target channel

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

Raid (band) Raid were a Tennessee based straight edge hardcore punk band that formed after the break-up of the hardcore band One Way. Raid were a part of the Hardline subculture, which combined the tenets of straight edge (a no drugs, no alcohol lifestyle) ...

, a Tennessee-based band, who helped pioneer the Vegan straight edge movement * "Raid", a song by

Lakeside Lakeside or Lake Side may refer to: Places Australia * Lakeside College, Pakenham, Victoria * Lakeside Joondalup Shopping City, Joondalup, Western Australia * Lakeside, near Reservoir, Victoria * Lakeside International Raceway, Pine Rivers, Quee ...

on the album ''Untouchables'' * R.A.I.D., a branch of the fictional Marvel Comics terrorist group Advanced Idea Mechanics

Sports

* Raid (boating), a leisure pursuit combining sailing and rowing * Rally raid, a form of off-road motorsport * Rebreather Association of International Divers, a dive training organization

People

* Johan Raid (1885–1964), Estonian politician and government minister * Kaarin Raid (1942–2014), Estonian director, theatre pedagogue and actor * Kaljo Raid (1921–2005), Estonian composer

Other uses

* RAID (French Police unit), ', an anti-terrorist unit of the French National Police * Raid (insecticide), a consumer insecticide marketed by S. C. Johnson & Son * Real-Time Adversarial Intelligence & Decision-making "RAID", a DARPA project to perform predictive analysis of enemy behavior * RAID (in mental health), ''Reinforce Appropriate, Implode Disruptive'', is a positive psychology least restrictive practice approach for working with people who exhibit challenging behavior * Redundant array of independent disks (RAID), a data storage mechanism for improving performance and fault tolerance in computing systems * Raids, Manche, France * Risks, Assumptions, Issues and Dependencies, a project management technique called "RAID log"