Lancer (disambiguation)
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A lancer is a cavalry soldier who fights with a lance.
Lancer may also refer to:
Military
- Rockwell B-1 Lancer, a strategic bomber used by the United States Air Force
- Lockheed CL-1200, a late-1960s proposed update to the F-104 Starfighter
- Republic P-43 Lancer, a single-engine fighter first delivered to the United States Army Air Corps in 1940
- Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 Lancer, a variant of the MiG-21 made for the Romanian Air Force
- HAL Lancer, a variant of the Aérospatiale SA 315B Lama helicopter
- the nickname for VMFA-212, U.S. Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 212
Transportation
- Austin Lancer, a passenger car produced by the British Motor Corporation of Australia between 1958 and 1964
- Dodge Lancer, a car produced from 1955–1962 and 1985–1989
- Mitsubishi Lancer, a car produced since 1973
- Type C7 ship (Lancer Class), a designation for a cargo ship and the first purpose-built container ship
- Champion Lancer, a twin-engine training plane produced in 1963 by Champion Aircraft
Sports
- Omaha Lancers, a United States Hockey League franchise
Rochester Lancers, a Professional Indoor Soccer Team in Rochester, New York
- Windsor Lancers, the sports teams of the University of Windsor in Ontario, Canada
- Longwood Lancers, the athletic teams of Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia.
The athletics teams of numerous high schools are named Lancers:
- Lasalle Secondary School in Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
- Lakenheath High School on the American base at RAF Lakenheath in England
- Salpointe Catholic High School in Tucson, Arizona
- In California:
- La Serna High School in Whittier
- Sunny Hills High School in Fullerton
- East Union High School in Manteca
- Carlsbad High School (Carlsbad, California)
- Hilltop High School in Chula Vista
- Saint Francis High School (Mountain View)
- Waterford High School (Connecticut) in Waterford, Connecticut
- Belleville Township High School East in Belleville, Illinois
- Shawnee Mission East High School in Prairie Village, Kansas
- Linganore High School in Frederick, Maryland
- Livingston High School (Livingston, New Jersey)
- Lewiston-Porter High School in Youngstown, New York
- Longmeadow High School in Longmeadow, Massachusetts
- Malden Catholic High School in Malden, Massachusetts
- Manchester High School in Midlothian, Virginia
- La Salle High School (Cincinnati, Ohio)
- General McLane High School in Edinboro, Pennsylvania
- Loyalsock Township High School in Pennsylvania
- Robert E. Lee High School (Fairfax County, Virginia) in Springfield
- South Umpqua High School in Myrtle Creek, Oregon
In entertainment
- Lancer (TV series), a 1969 western series
- one of the supporting characters in Fate/stay night, an adult Japanese visual novel
- a gargantuan robot featured in the video game Sonic Unleashed, called the Egg Lancer
- the nickname for Lance Belmont, a character from the fictional Robotech Universe
- the surname of Mr. Lancer, a teacher from the Danny Phantom universe
- a character in the television series My Little Pony Tales
- a weapon in the video game Gears of War, featuring a chainsaw bayonet
- a weapon in the video game Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando, one of the game's starting weapons
- a fictional university in the television series Hellcats
- a nickname for hunters who primarily use the "Lance" class weapon in Monster Hunter
Other
- Lancer, Saskatchewan, a small village in Canada
- The U.S. Secret Service codename for President John F. Kennedy
- Lancers (wine brand), a brand of sparkling wine from Portugal
- Lancer Books, a publishing house
See also
- Les Lanciers or The Lancers, a form of dance
- Lancero (English: Lancer), a Colombian National Army training course
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