A riff is an example of ostinato, a short, repeated musical phrase.
Riff, RIFF, The 'Riff, or Riffs may also refer to:
Acronyms
- Rajasthan International Folk Festival
- Resource Interchange File Format
- Reykjavík International Film Festival
- Riverside International Film Festival
- Rome Independent Film Festival
Fictional characters
- Riff (dinosaur), on Barney & Friends
- Riff, a character in Allegra’s Window
- Riff (Sluggy Freelance)
- Riff, the leader of the Jets in West Side Story
- Riff Randle, protagonist of the Ramones film Rock 'n' Roll High School
- The Riffs, a gang in the film The Warriors
Music
- Riff (American band), a 1980s/1990s rhythm and blues vocal group
- Riff (Argentine band) a hard rock band
- Riffs (album), a 2003 album by Status Quo
- "The Riff" (Lordi song), 2013
- "Riff", a song by Sander van Doorn from Supernaturalistic
- "The Riff Song", a musical number from The Desert Song
Other uses
- Resource Interchange File Format (RIFF), a generic file container format
- The Riff, an Australian music video television show
- Riff: Everyday Shooter, a 2007 video game
- Penrith, New South Wales, Australia, nicknamed "The Riff"
- MSTing or riffing, a form of humorous media commentary
- WRIF, "The Riff", a radio station in Detroit, Michigan, US
See also
- RIF (disambiguation)
- Rif, a region of Morocco
- Riffian people, a Berber people of the Rif