Kite (disambiguation)

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The word kite may refer to:

• Kite, a light, man-made object designed to be supported by the wind

Contents 1 Music 2 Films 3 People 4 Other

[edit] Music

• Kite (Kirsty MacColl album) (1989) by Kirsty MacColl
• Kite (Stefanie Sun album) (2001) by Stefanie Sun
• Kite (Kate Bush song), a song by Kate Bush from her debut album The Kick Inside
• Kite (song), a song by U2
• Kites (Simon Dupree song) - a song by Hal Hackaday and Lee Pockriss and performed by Simon Dupree and the Big Sound and other artists
• Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! - a song by the Beatles from the album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

[edit] Films

• Kites (film), upcoming Bollywood film starring Hrithik Roshan, Barbara Mori and Kangana Ranaut
• Kite (film), or A Kite, a highly controversial anime release in 1998
• The Kite, a 2003 movie.
• "Kites", a poem by Ruskin Bond
• "The Kite", a 1962 novel by W. O. Mitchell

[edit] People

• Brent Kite, Australian rugby league player
• John Kite, 16th century clergyman
• Robert Kite, Lord Mayor of London in 1766
• Son Kite, a psychedelic trance musician
• Tom Kite, American golfer
• William Kite, a Victorian showman made famous in the song Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! by the Beatles.
• Kite (.hack), a fictional character in Project .hack, a multimedia science fiction series

[edit] Other

• Spinnaker, a type of ship's sail
• Kite (bird), one of many species of bird of prey in the family Accipitridae
• Kite (geometry), a kite-shaped quadrilateral
• Kite is an ancient Egyptian unit of weight equivalent to 1/10th of a deben.
• HMS Kite (U87), a ship in the British Royal Navy
• Kite aspect, a factor in astrology
• Kite, Georgia, a town in the United States
• Check kiting, a kind of bank fraud in which a worthless check is presented to obtain goods or cash
• Kite, a slang term for correspondence received while incarcerated^{[citation needed]}
• Kite, a hypothetical creature from Extraterrestrial
• Kite (programming language), a computer programming language
• to kite, a MMO term that describes killing opponents by keeping them at distance and attacking them from range.