Riptide (disambiguation)

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Riptide or rip tide usually means a potentially dangerous water current:

• Rip tide, a strong tidal flow of water within estuaries and other enclosed tidal areas
• A common misnomer for a rip current, a fast narrow current running offshore and cutting through breaking waves

Riptide or rip tide may also refer to:

Amusement rides

• Riptide (Canada's Wonderland), a Top Spin ride
• Riptide, a pirate ship ride at Morey's Piers
• Rip Tide, a Top Spin ride at Knott's Berry Farm

Films and television

• Riptide (film), by Edmund Goulding
• Riptide (American TV series), a 1980s American detective series
• Riptide (Australian TV series) (1969), starring Ty Hardin

Literature

• Rip Tide, a Doctor Who novella
• Riptide (book series), short story anthologies
• Riptide (comics), a character in the Marvel universe
• Riptide (Image Comics), a character in the Image and Awesome Comics universes
• Riptide (novel), by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

Music

• Riptide (album), 1985 album by Robert Palmer
• The Rip Tide, 2011 album by Beirut
• "Riptide" (Sick Puppies song), 2011
• "Riptide" (Vance Joy song), 2013

Sport

• Central Jersey Riptide, a soccer team from Clark, New Jersey
• Los Angeles Riptide, a lacrosse team from Carson, California
• New England Riptide, a women's softball team from Lowell, Massachusetts
• Oregon Riptide, a basketball team in Portland, Oregon
• San Diego Riptide, a football team in San Diego, California
• Riptide, ringname of American professional wrestler Angel Orsini

Other

• A Water character in Skylanders: Swap Force
• A miniature in the game Warhammer_40,000
• Dead Island: Riptide, a video game