A raft is a flat floating structure for travel over water.
Raft may also refer to:
Places
- Great Raft, a gigantic log jam in the Red River, Louisiana, United States
- Raft Island, a private island in Pierce County, Washington, U.S.
- Raft River, a river that flows from Utah to Idaho in the U.S.
People with the name
- George Raft (1895–1980), an American film actor
Arts, entertainment, and media
Literature
- Raft (novel), a science fiction novel by Stephen Baxter
- "The Raft" (short story), a horror short story by Stephen King
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
- Raft (band), a French band
- The Raft, a fictional refugee flotilla in Neal Stephenson's novel Snow Crash
Computing and technology
- Raft (computer science), a distributed consensus protocol
- RaftLib, the Raft library for parallel processing with iostreams and compute kernels
- Raft, a computer survival game by Axolot Games
Organizations
- Remote Area Firefighting Team (RAFT), firefighting specialists
- Resource Area for Teaching (RAFT), a nonprofit organization supplying materials and ideas to teachers
Science
- RAFT (chemistry), reversible addition–fragmentation chain transfer
- Lipid raft, a cholesterol-enriched microdomain in cell membranes
- Raft spider, a European spider of the family Pisauridae
Other uses
- Floating raft system, a type of foundation
- Great raft, a log jam
- Rafting, a recreational activity utilizing a raft
- Timber rafting, a log transportation method
See also
- The Raft (disambiguation), a disambiguation page for articles titled "The Raft"