Riptide (disambiguation) explained
Rip tide is a strong tidal flow of water within estuaries and other enclosed tidal areas.
Riptide or rip tide may also refer to:
- A common misnomer for a rip current, a fast narrow current running offshore and cutting through breaking waves
Amusement rides
Books
- Riptide (book series), short story anthologies
- Riptide (novel), by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, 1998
- Riptide, a novel by Catherine Coulter, 2000
- Riptide, a novel by Cherry Adair, 2011
- Riptide, a Star Wars novel by Paul S. Kemp, 2011
- Rip Tide, a novel in verse by William Rose Benét, 1932
- Rip Tide, a novel by Sam Llewellyn, 1992
- Rip Tide (novella), a Doctor Who novella by Louise Cooper, 2003
- Rip Tide, a novel by Kat Falls, 2011
- Rip Tide, a novel by Stella Rimington, 2011
Comics
Films and television
Films
TV
Music
- The Riptides, Australian power pop group formed in 1977
- Riptide (album), 1985 album by Robert Palmer, or its title track
- The Rip Tide, 2011 album by Beirut
- "Riptide" (Sick Puppies song), 2011
- "Riptide" (Vance Joy song), 2013
- "Riptide" (The Chainsmokers song), 2022
- "Riptide", a 2022 single by Beartooth
- "Riptide", a 2020 single by Grandson from Death of an Optimist
- Rip Tide, background music in SpongeBob SquarePants
Sport
- Central Jersey Riptide, a defunct soccer team from Clark, New Jersey
- Los Angeles Riptide, a defunct outdoor lacrosse team from Carson, California
- New England Riptide, a defunct women's softball team from Lowell, Massachusetts
- New York Riptide, a box lacrosse team from Uniondale, New York
- Oregon Riptide, a defunct basketball team in Portland, Oregon
- San Diego Riptide, a defunct football team in San Diego, California
- Riptide, ringname of American professional wrestler Angel Orsini
- Riptide, a finisher move of the professional wrestler Rhea Ripley
Other
- , a 2013 video game
- Riptide ("Anaklusmos"), Percy Jackson's sword in the Percy Jackson & the Olympians book series
- Riptide Publishing, a publisher of LGBTQ fiction; see