Turtle (disambiguation)
A turtle is a reptile, most of whose body is shielded by a special bony or cartilaginous shell.
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Turtle(s) may also refer to:
Entertainment
- Turtle (gaming), a primarily defensive strategy in various computer games
- Turtles (video game), a 1981 arcade game by Konami
- Turtle (magazine), a 1979–2014 American bi-monthly for preschoolers
- Turtle: The Incredible Journey, a 2009 German-British-Austrian documentary
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, a superhero franchise, sometimes known as Ninja Turtles or Turtles
Fictional characters
- Touché Turtle and Dum Dum, characters in a Hanna-Barbera cartoon show
- Turtle (comics), two villains who were primarily enemies of Flash
- Turtle (Entourage), a character in the HBO television series Entourage
- The Great and Powerful Turtle, aka "Turtle" or "The Turtle", a character in the Wild Cards novels
- Turtle, a character in Barbara Kingsolver's novels The Bean Trees and Pigs in Heaven
- The Red Turtle, a massive female turtle with a red shell and the titular character of the dialogue-less Japanese animated movie.
Music
- The Turtles, an American folk-rock band, best known for the 1967 hit song "Happy Together"
- Turtles (South Korean band), a K-Hip-Hop band
- "Turtle", a song from the album twicetagram by South Korean girl group TWICE
Places
- Turtle Mountain (Alberta), Canada
- Guishan Island (Yilan) or Turtle Mountain, Taiwan
- Turtle Bay (disambiguation)
- Turtle Creek (disambiguation)
- Turtle Island (disambiguation)
- Turtle Lake (disambiguation)
United States
- Turtle, Missouri
- Turtle, Wisconsin, a town
- Turtle Mountains (California)
- Turtle Mound, a prehistoric archaeological site in Florida
- Rio Turtle or Turtle Rock, West Virginia
Technology
- Turtle (robot), a class of educational robots used most prominently in the 1970s and 1980s
Computing
- Turtle (syntax), a Terse RDF Triple language
- Turtle F2F, a tool for exchanging contents in an anonymous and secure way over a friend-to-friend (F2F) network
- Turtle graphics, using a relative cursor, the "turtle"
- Turtles, small values near the end of the list in sorting; See Comb sort
Watercraft
- Turtle (submersible), the first military diving bell, built during the American Revolutionary War
- DSV Turtle, a retired ocean research submersible of the US Navy
- Turtleback Deck, a rounded weather deck
People
As a surname, Turtle is believed to be akin to Dove, Pigeon, Sparrow, and Jay, deriving from the bird now called the turtle dove, known in the Middle Ages as a turtle.
- John Turtle (born 1937), Australian academic and endocrinologist
- Roger Turtle (fl. 1326-1344), English politician
- Tommy Turtle (1950–2020), a British Army officer from Ireland
- Turtle Bunbury (born 1972), Irish historian and author
Other uses
- Turtles (chocolate), a type of candy trademarked by DeMet's Candy Company
- Turtle's Records & Tapes, a defunct American retail chain
- Botts' dots, often called turtles in Washington and Oregon
- Turtle (grappling), a grappling position
- European turtle dove, archaic name turtle
- Turtle Entertainment, German company
- Turtle, a member of the Ancient Order of Turtles, or Turtle Club
- Turtle, a type of spinning float, a breakdancing move
- Turtle beans
See also
- TIRTL, a traffic logger and speed measurement device
- Turtling (disambiguation)
- All pages with titles beginning with Turtle
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