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A rifle is a firearm with a stock and a barrel that has a spiral groove or grooves ("rifling") cut into its interior.

Rifle or The Rifle(s) may also refer to:

Military

• The Rifles, a regiment of the British Army
• Rifle regiment, British light infantry armed with rifles
• Rifle regiment, a type of Russian and Soviet unit of the rifle troops type

Entertainment

• The Rifle, a 1995 novel by American writer Gary Paulsen
• The Rifles (band), an English rock band
• "Rifles", a song by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club on the album B.R.M.C.
• "The Rifle", a second-season episode of Peter Gunn, 1959
• "The Rifle", an episode of The Rough Riders, 1959
• "The Rifle (Dynasty)", a season 8 episode of Dynasty, 1988

Other uses

• Rifle, Colorado, a city in Garfield County, Colorado, USA
• Rifle (fashion), an Italian clothing company
• Walter Pandiani (born 1976), Uruguayan footballer
• RIFLE criteria, a classification system for acute renal failure
• The Rifle, a shooting sports magazine and predecessor of American Rifleman

See also

• Riffle (disambiguation)
• Rifling, the process of grooving a gun barrel to increase a projectile's range and accuracy
• Rifleman (disambiguation), a private soldier in a rifle unit of infantry