Trailer may refer to: a
Transportation
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Trailer (vehicle)
A trailer is an unpowered vehicle towed by a powered vehicle. It is commonly used for the transport of goods and materials.
Sometimes recreational vehicles, travel trailers, or mobile homes with limited living facilities where people can camp ...
, an unpowered vehicle pulled by a powered vehicle
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Bicycle trailer
A bicycle trailer is a motorless wheeled frame with a hitch system for transporting cargo by bicycle. It can greatly increase a bike's cargo capacity, allowing point-to-point haulage of objects up to 4 cubic yards (3 cubic metres) in vol ...
, a wheeled frame for hitching to a bicycle to tow cargo or passengers
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Full-trailer
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Semi-trailer
A semi-trailer is a trailer without a front axle. In the United States, the term is also used to refer to the combination of a truck and a semi-trailer; a tractor-trailer.
A large proportion of a semi-trailer's weight is supported by a trac ...
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Horse trailer
A horse trailer or horse van (also called a horse float in Australia and New Zealand or horsebox in the British Isles) is used to transport horses. There are many different designs, ranging in size from small units capable of holding two or thr ...
and other trailers designed to haul livestock
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Travel trailer
A caravan, travel trailer, camper, tourer or camper trailer is a trailer towed behind a road vehicle to provide a place to sleep which is more comfortable and protected than a tent (although there are fold-down trailer tents). It provides th ...
, or caravan, a type of recreational trailer designed to provide sleeping space
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Boat trailer to carry small boats
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Baggage trailer, a large
baggage trolley
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Semi-trailer truck
A semi-trailer truck, also known as a semitruck, (or semi, eighteen-wheeler, big rig, tractor-trailer or, by synecdoche, a semitrailer) is the combination of a tractor unit and one or more semi-trailers to carry freight. A semi-traile ...
Shelter
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Mobile home, a relocatable housing unit with wheels and hitch
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Portable classroom, a temporary classroom for schools with insufficient building capacity - not technically a trailer due to lack of wheels or hitch. This temporary shelter can be relocated with a trailer, but by definition the structure itself is not a trailer.
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Construction trailer
Construction trailers are mobile structures ( trailers) used to accommodate temporary offices, dining facilities and storage of building materials during construction projects.
Hook-ups
Typically, trailers need to be equipped with telephone lines ...
, relocatable temporary accommodation with wheels and hitch used for offices and building materials storage on construction sites
Computing
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Trailer (computing)
In information technology, a trailer or footer refers to supplemental data (metadata) placed at the end of a block of data being stored or transmitted, which may contain information for the handling of the data block, or simply mark the block's ...
, data appended to a main block of data to facilitate its processing
Multimedia
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Trailer (promotion)
A trailer (also known as a preview, coming attraction or attraction video) is a commercial advertisement, originally for a feature film that is going to be exhibited in the future at a movie theater/cinema. It is a product of creative and tech ...
, an advertisement, usually in the form of a brief excerpt or string of excerpts, for a media work.
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Teaser trailer
A teaser (or more specifically teaser trailer) is a mini- trailer and a form of teaser campaign advertising that focuses on film and television programming. It is a videography pre-release move or television show advertisement. Short in length, te ...
, a truncated version of a trailer meant to "tease" an upcoming work.
Music
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''Trailer'' (album), a 1994 album from the Northern Irish musical group Ash
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Tráiler'', 2018 extended play by Spanish singer Aitana
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