Turtle (disambiguation)

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A turtle is a reptile, most of whose body is shielded by a special bony or cartilaginous shell.

Turtle(s) may also refer to:

Musical groups

• The Turtles, an American folk-rock band, best known for the 1967 hit song "Happy Together"
• Turtles (group), a K-Hip-Hop band

Entertainment

• Turtle (comics), two villains who were primarily enemies of Flash
• Turtle (Entourage), a character in the HBO television series Entourage
• Turtle (gaming), a primarily defensive strategy in various computer games
• Turtles (video game), a 1981 arcade game by Konami
• 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
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, superhero franchise, often shortened to Turtles

People with the surname

• John Turtle (born 1937), Australian academic and endocrinologist
• Jon Turtle, American film and television producer

Places

• Turtle, Missouri, United States
• Turtle, Wisconsin, United States, a town
• Turtle Mountains (California), United States
• Turtle Mound, Florida, United States a prehistoric archaeological site
• Rio Turtle or Turtle Rock, West Virginia, United States
• Turtle Mountain (Alberta), Canada
• Turtle Mountain, Guishan Island, Taiwan
• Turtle Bay (disambiguation)
• Turtle Creek (disambiguation)
• Turtle Island (disambiguation)
• Turtle Lake (disambiguation)

Watercraft

• Turtle (submersible), the first military submarine, built during the American Revolutionary War
• DSV Turtle, a retired ocean research submersible of the US Navy
• Turtle ship or Geobukseon, a type of Korean warship from the Joseon Dynasty
• Turtleback Deck or "deck, turtle nautical: A term applied to a weather deck that is rounded over from the shell of the ship so that it has a shape similar to the back of a turtle. Used on ships of the whaleback type and on the forward weather deck of torpedo boats."^[1]

Technology

• Turtle (robot), a class of educational robots used most prominently in the 1970s and 1980s
• 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

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
• An archaic name for the turtle dove
• A member of the Ancient Order of Turtles
• A type of spinning float, a breakdancing move

See also

• All pages beginning with "Turtle"
• Turtle (grappling)
• Turtles all the way down
• TIRTL, a traffic logger and speed measurement device
• Turtling (disambiguation)
• Tortoise (disambiguation)

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