Crusader
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Crusader or Crusaders may refer to:
Military
- Crusader, a participant in one of the Crusades
 - Convair NB-36H Crusader, an experimental nuclear-powered bomber
 - Crusader tank, a British cruiser tank of World War II
 - Crusaders (guerrilla), a Croatian anti-communist guerrilla army
 - F-8 Crusader, a U.S. Navy fighter jet
- XF8U-3 Crusader III, an experimental fighter intended to replace the F-8
 
 - HMS Crusader, three British ships
 - Operation Crusader, a British attack in North Africa in the Second World War
 - VMFA-122 Crusaders, United States Marine Corps fixed wing Fighter-Attack Squadron 122
 - XM2001 Crusader, an American self-propelled artillery project
 
Arts, entertainment, and media
Fictional characters
- Crusader (Dungeons & Dragons), a Dungeons & Dragons character Class
 - Crusader (Marvel Comics), two different fictional characters in Marvel Comics
 - Crusader, an alias used by a character claiming to be Marvel Boy
 - Caped Crusader, an epithet for Batman
 - Crusader X, an alternate version of Captain Britain
 - Crusaders (DC Comics), a name used by a team of DC Comics superheroes
 - Crusaders (Marvel Comics), a name by a similar team from Marvel Comics
 - Mighty Crusaders, an Archie comics superhero team, later licensed by DC Comics and relaunched as "The Crusaders" on the Imprint label
 - JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders, the third part of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure anime
 
Music
Albums
- Crusader (Chris de Burgh album), released in 1979
 - Crusader (Saxon album), released in 1984
 - The Crusader (album), the 2003 debut album by New Zealand rapper Scribe
 
Groups
- The Crusaders (jazz fusion group), an American jazz/jazz fusion group, formerly the Jazz Crusaders
 - The Crusaders (garage band), a 1960s garage band from Los Angeles who released first Gospel rock record
 - The Crusaders, Neil Christian's backing group
 - Boston Crusaders Drum and Bugle Corps, a Drum Corps International World Class drum corps
 - Oregon Crusaders Drum and Bugle Corps, a DCI Open Class drum corps
 
Films
- Crusader (film), a 2005 TV movie starring Bo Derek and Andrew McCarthy
 - "Crusaders" (original title Krzyżacy means "Crusaders"), a Polish film released as Knights of the Teutonic Order
 - The Crusader (1932 film), a 1932 film starring Evelyn Brent
 - The Crusader (2007 film), a 2007 direct-to-DVD motion picture
 - The Crusaders (1918 film), a 1918 Italian film
 - The Crusaders (2001 film), a 2001 Italian television mini-series
 
Games
- Crusader (game series), a 1995 action computer game series
 - Crusader: Adventure Out of Time, a 1997 video game
 - Stronghold: Crusader, a 2001 computer strategy game
 
Literature
- Crusader (Bloor novel), a 1999 novel by Edward Bloor
 - Crusader (Sara Douglass novel), a 1999 fantasy novel by Sara Douglass
 - The Crusaders, a 1948 bestseller by Stefan Heym
 - The Crusaders. An Historical Romance, of the Twelfth Century, an 1820 novel by Louisa Stanhope
 
Periodicals
Many newspapers have used The Crusader as a title, including:
- Crusader, a newspaper of the African Blood Brotherhood
 - Crusader, a publication of College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts
 - Crusader, a newspaper of The Knights Party
 - The East St. Louis Crusader, a former newspaper in East St. Louise for African Americans
 - The New Orleans Crusader, also known as the Crusader and Weekly Crusader, a publication that carried entries from Rodolphe Desdunes
 
Other arts, entertainment, and media
- Crusader (TV series), a 1955–1956 adventure/drama television series starring Brian Keith
 - Southern Knights, a comic series originally called the Crusaders in their first issue
 - The Crusader (sculpture), a 1931 Lorado Taft sculpture in Chicago's Graceland Cemetery
 
Sports
Athletics teams
- Bishop Heelan Catholic High School Crusaders, Sioux City, Iowa
 - Belmont Abbey College Crusaders, the athletic teams of Belmont Abbey College, Belmont, North Carolina
 - Capital Crusaders, the athletic teams of Capital University, Columbus, Ohio
 - Canisius Crusaders, the athletics teams of Canisius High School, Buffalo, New York
 - Crusaders, the athletics teams of Chicago's Brother Rice High School
 - Holy Cross Crusaders, the athletics teams of College of the Holy Cross
 - North Greenville Crusaders, the athletic teams of North Greenville University, Tigerville, South Carolina
 - Pensacola Catholic Crusaders, the sports teams of Pensacola Catholic High School
 - Riordan Crusaders, the sports teams of Archbishop Riordan High School, San Francisco, California
 - Univ. of Dallas Crusaders, the sports teams of the University of Dallas
 
Cricket teams
- Kandy Crusaders, a Sri Lankan domestic T20 cricket team
 
Football teams
- Amsterdam Crusaders, an American football team from the Netherlands
 - Carlstad Crusaders, an American football team from Sweden
 - Crusaders F.C., an association football team from Northern Ireland
 
Ice hockey teams
- Cleveland Crusaders, a World Hockey Association team from 1972 to 1976
 
Rugby league teams
- London Broncos, an English rugby league club once known as London Crusaders
 - Crusaders Rugby League, a defunct Welsh rugby league club, formerly the Celtic Crusaders
- North Wales Crusaders, Phoenix club of the above
 
 
Rugby union teams
- Crusaders (rugby union), a rugby union team from New Zealand, formerly the Canterbury Crusaders
 - Western Crusaders, a rugby union team from Fiji
 
Other uses in sports
- Crusader (horse) (1923–1940), a United States racehorse
 - Lucas Oil Crusader, a monster truck currently racing in the Monster Jam professional monster truck racing series
 
Transportation
Civilian aircraft and ships
- Crusader (speedboat), the jet speedboat in which John Cobb died
 - American Gyro AG-4 Crusader, an aircraft built by the Crusader Aircraft Corporation
 - Cessna T303 Crusader, a civilian aircraft
 - Short Crusader, a racing seaplane built by Short Brothers
 
Civilian ground vehicles
- Crusader (train), a streamlined train which operated between 1937 and 1981
 - Crusader, a type of emergency ambulance in widespread use in the United Kingdom, originally developed by the St John Ambulance Brigade
 - Crusader, a GWR 3031 Class locomotive that was built for and ran on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915
 - Royal Enfield Crusader Sports, a 248cc motorcycle of the 1960s
 
Other uses
- The Crusaders (repeal of alcohol prohibition), a group that promoted repeal of national alcohol prohibition in the U.S.
 - Urban Saints, a Christian youth charity based in the United Kingdom previously known as Crusaders
 
See also
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- All pages with titles containing crusaders
 - All pages with titles containing crusader
 - Crusade (disambiguation)
 - Mujahid (disambiguation)
 - Mujahideen, participants in jihad ("crusade" or "struggle")