A kite is a tethered heavier-than-air or lighter-than-air craft with wing surfaces.
Kite or kites may also refer to:
- Kite (bird), the common name for a number of birds of prey
- Kite (geometry), a quadrilateral with reflection symmetry across a diagonal
Arts and entertainment
[edit]Fictional characters
[edit]- Kite (.hack), from the video game series
- Kite, a Hunter × Hunter character
- Kite, in the TV series Extraterrestrial
Film
[edit]- Kite (film series), by Yasuomi Umetsu
- Kite (1998 film), an original video animation
- Kite (2014 film), a live action film
- The Kite (2003 film), a Lebanese drama
- Saranggola, or The Kite, a 1999 Filipino film
- Kites (film), a 2010 Indian romantic action thriller
- Patang (film) ('The Kite'), a 1993 Indian film
Literature
[edit]- Kite (novel), by Melvin Burgess, 1997
- The Kite, a 1962 novel by W. O. Mitchell
Music
[edit]- Kite (band), a Swedish synthpop duo
- "Kite" (Arashi song), 2020
- "Kite" (Kate Bush song), 1978
- "Kite" (Benjamin Ingrosso song), 2024
- Kite (Kirsty MacColl album), 1989
- Kite (Stefanie Sun album), 2001
- "Kite" (U2 song), 2000
- "Kite", a song by Nick Heyward from the 1993 album From Monday to Sunday
- "Kites" (song), by Simon Dupree, 1967
- "Kites", a song by Reks from the 2016 album The Greatest X
- "Kite Song", a song by Kevin Roth from "Faith, Hope and Anxiety", an episode of Shining Time Station
Ships
[edit]- HMS Kite, the name of several ships of the Royal Navy
- SS Kite, a ship used in the Peary expedition to Greenland of 1891–1892
- USS Kite, the name of several ships of the U.S. Navy
Other uses
[edit]- Kite (sail), or spinnaker
- Kite (sailboat), an American sailboat design
- Kite (surname), including a list of people with the name
- Kite, Georgia, U.S., a place
- Kite, Kentucky, U.S., a place
- Kite, any aircraft, in RAF slang
- Kite and dart tiling, in geometry
- KITE (AM), a radio station (1410 AM) licensed to Victoria, Texas, U.S.
- KNAL (FM), a radio station in Texas (93.3 FM) licensed to Port Lavaca, U.S., call sign KITE 2001–2014
- KiTE, KGiSL Institute of Technology in Coimbatore, India
- Alpi Pioneer 300 Kite, an Italian light-sport aircraft design
See also
[edit]- Index of kite articles
- Kiting (disambiguation)
- Kiteboarding, a sport using wind power with a large power kite
- Desert kite, a dry stone wall structure
- Kite shield a type of shield