Cheetah (disambiguation)
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The cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) is the fastest of all land animals, and a member of the family Felidae.
Cheetah may also refer to:
- Miracinonyx, or American cheetah, a prehistoric genus of big cats
Aviation
- Armstrong Siddeley Cheetah, an aircraft engine used during World War II
- Atlas Cheetah, a South African military aircraft
- Avian Cheetah, a British hang glider
- Grumman American AA-5A Cheetah, a light general aviation aircraft
- HAL Cheetah, an Indian licence built version of the Aérospatiale Lama light helicopter
- Rainbow Cheetah, a South African ultralight aircraft
Automobiles
- Bill Thomas Cheetah, a US sports car developed by the Bill Thomas Motorsports company
- Cheetah Automobiles, a Swiss racing car manufacturer, in 1978 24 Hours of Le Mans
- Cheetah MMPV, an armored fighting vehicle
- Cheetah Racing Cars, Australian race cars manufactured in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s
- Cheetah, a fictional sportscar in the Grand Theft Auto (series) videogame series, mostly based on a Ferrari Testarossa
- Flakpanzer Gepard, the "anti-aircraft cannon tank Cheetah"
- The Lamborghini Cheetah, a large 4x4 off-road prototype that was a precursor to the 1980s Humvee
Computer related
- Cheetah Marketing, a UK-based computer hardware and musical equipment company
- Cheetah3D, a computer graphics program for 3D modeling, animation and rendering
- CheetahTemplate, a Python template engine
- Cheetah, a forerunner of the IBM POWER instruction set architecture
- Cheetah, a hard drive made by Seagate Technology
- Cheetah, robot by Boston Dynamics
- Cheetah, robot by the Biomimetic Robotics Lab, part of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Mac OS X v10.0, operating system version codenamed "Cheetah"
Music
- Cheetah (band), Australian rock band
- Cheetah (rapper), a South Korean rapper.
- Cheetah Records, a record label
Entertainment
- Cheetah (1989 film), a 1989 Disney film
- Cheetah (1994 film), a 1994 Hindi-language Indian film directed by Harmesh Malhotra
- Cheetah (comics), a fictional supervillain in the DC Comics Universe
- Cheetah (Marvel Comics), a fictional villain
- Cheeta, a chimpanzee appearing in numerous Tarzan movies
Sports clubs
- Central Cheetahs, a South African rugby union club
- Free State Cheetahs, a South African rugby union club
Nightclubs
- Cheetah (nightclub), a 1960s New York club frequented by Jimi Hendrix
- Cheetah's, a Las Vegas nightclub best known for being featured in the 1995 movie Showgirls
Weaponry
- .22 CHeetah, a custom cartridge
- Beretta Cheetah, a semi-automatic pistol
Other uses
- Cheetah (Wild Adventures), a wooden roller coaster at Wild Adventures in Georgia, USA
- Cheetah Brewers International Inc., a brewer of Canadian beer
See also
- Cheater
- Cheaters (disambiguation)
- Cheeta, the chimpanzee in early Tarzan movies as well as the 1966–1968 television series
- Cheetah Energy, a brand of energy drink
- Cheetor, a Transformers character
- Chita (disambiguation)
- The Cheetah Girls (band), a musical group
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