Rift (disambiguation)

A rift is a geological occurrence where the Earth's crust and lithosphere are being pulled apart.

Rift may also refer to:

Geography

• Great Rift Valley, Kenya, a rift valley in Kenya
• Great Rift Valley, Ethiopia, a rift valley in Ethiopia

Music

• Rift (album), an album by Phish

Film and television

• The Rift (1989 film), a movie directed by Juan Piquer Simón and starring R. Lee Ermey involving a submarine rescue that goes awry
• The Rift (2012 film), a 2012 film directed by Robert Kouba
• Cardiff Rift, a fictional breach in space-time in the television series Doctor Who and Torchwood

Electronic games

• Rifts (role-playing game), 1990 multi-genre role-playing game created by Kevin Siembieda
• Rift (video game), a massively multiplayer online role-playing game
• Far Gate, a computer game which was known as The Rift prior to its retail release
• The Rift (Skyrim), a hold in the video game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

Other uses

• metabolic rift, a shorthand expression for Karl Marx's notion of a rupture in the metabolic interaction between humanity and the rest of nature
• Oculus Rift, a virtual reality head-mounted display
• The Rift (novel), a 1999 novel by Walter Jon Williams
• The Rift, one of the three-part comic books of Avatar: The Last Airbender.