Drone most commonly refers to:
- Drone (bee), a male bee, from an unfertilized egg
- Drone (aircraft) or unmanned aerial vehicle
Drone, drones or The Drones may also refer to:
Film and television
- Drones (2010 film), an American office comedy
- Drones (2013 film), an American war thriller directed by Rick Rosenthal
- Drone (2014 film), a Norwegian documentary film
- Drone (2017 film), a Canadian thriller film
- "Drones" (Beavis and Butt-Head), a 2011 episode of Beavis and Butt-head
- "Drone" (Star Trek: Voyager), a 1998 episode of Star Trek: Voyager
- Drone, a humanoid assimilated by the Borg
- Drones, service robots in Silent Running
Literature
- Drone, a member of the Drones Club in P. G. Wodehouse's novels
- Drones, intelligent machines in the utopian society The Culture of Iain M. Banks
Music
- Drone (music), a continuous note or chord in a piece of music
Genres
- Drone metal, a style of heavy metal
- Drone music, a minimalist musical style
Instruments
- Drone (bagpipes), a pipe which produces a constant note
- Drone zither
- Bladder fiddle or drone
Artists
- The Drones (Australian band)
- The Drones (English band)
Albums
- The Drones (EP), a 2001 EP by the Australian band Drones
- Drones (Muse album) (2015)
- Drones World Tour
- Drones (Robert Rich album) (1983)
Songs
- "Drone", a 2018 song by Alice in Chains from Rainier Fog
- "Drone", a 2015 song by Chastity Belt from Time to Go Home
- "Drones", a 2004 song by Fear Factory from Archetype
- "Drones", a 2015 song by Oh Hiroshima from In Silence We Yearn
- "Drones", a 2006 song by Rise Against from The Sufferer & the Witness
Other uses
- Drone (wrestler), Mexican professional wrestler
- Drone, Georgia, a place in the United States
- Drone, a fertile male ant
- Drones or yanme'e, a fictional species in the Covenant in Halo
See also
- Didgeridoo, sometimes called a dronepipe
- Drone strike