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A waverider is a type of hypersonic aircraft that takes advantage of compression lift from its own shock wave.
Waverider or wave rider, may also refer to:
Transportation and vehicles
- Boeing X-51 Waverider, a hypersonic research aircraft
- Wave Rider class patrolboat, from the Naval Boat Building Yard (Sri Lanka)
- Wave Rider a series of ocean-going robots by Liquid Robotics
Sports
- Delhi Waveriders, Delhi, India; a field hockey team
- WaveRiders, Kealakehe High School, Kailau, Hawaii, USA; the school sports team
Surfing
- surfer, the person or board (surfboard), used in surfing
- Wave Rider, a surfing magazine
- Waveriders (film), a 2008 surfing documentary film
- Wave Riders Association of Afghanistan, the surfing sports federation
Arts and entertainment
- Waverider (character), a DC Comics superhero
- Waverider (character), a Transformers character from The Transformers: Spotlight
- Waverider, a flume ride at HerseyPark, Hersey, Pennsylvania, USA; see History of Hersheypark
Other uses
See also
- Waverunner (disambiguation)
- All pages with titles containing wave rider
- All pages with titles containing waverider
- Rider (disambiguation)
- Wave (disambiguation)
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