A rat is a rodent of the genus Rattus.

Rat, RAT, or Rats may also refer to:

Places

• Rat, Novi Travnik, a village in Bosnia and Herzegovina

• Rat, Missouri, an unincorporated community

• Rat Island (disambiguation)

• Rat Islands, Alaska, United States

• Rat Lake (Aitkin County, Minnesota), United States

• Rat Lake (Cottonwood County, Minnesota), United States

• Rat Portage, the former name of Kenora, Ontario, Canada

• Rat River (disambiguation)

People

• Rat (Ned's Atomic Dustbin) (active 1987–1995), stage name of guitarist Gareth Pring

• Rats (footballer) (born 1977), nickname of former Angolan footballer Ambrósio Pascoal

• Blek le Rat (born 1952), French graffiti artist

• Răzvan Raț (born 1981), Romanian footballer

• Vasiliy Rats (born 1961), Ukrainian footballer

Technology

Computing

• Radio access technology, in networking

• RATS (software), a statistical software package for time series analysis

• Remote access trojan, malware

Aviation

• Ram air temperature, in aircraft

• Ram air turbine, in aircraft

• Rock Abrasion Tool, a NASA Mars Exploration Rover component

• CL-70 RAT (Remote Articulated Track), a Canadair vehicle

• Rocket Assisted Torpedo, later named RUR-5 ASROC

Others

• De Rat, IJlst, a windmill in the Netherlands

• Rapid antigen test, a kind of medical diagnostic

Arts and entertainment

Characters

• Rat (Pearls Before Swine), a comic strip character

• Rat Rathbone, in Robert Muchamore's CHERUB spy novel series

• Theodore Donald "Rat" Finch, a computer hacker in the 2003 film The Core

Films

• Rat (film), a 2000 Irish comedy

• Rats (2016 film), an American documentary horror film

• Rats! (film), a 2024 American independent comedy

• Rats, a 2013 short film starring Romaine Waite

• Rat, a 1998 documentary by Mark Lewis

• Rats: Night of Terror, a 1984 Italian film

Music

• Rats (album), 1994, by Sass Jordan

• "Rats" (Ghost song), 2018

• "Rats" (The Kinks song), 1970

• "Rats", a song by The Automatics from the album Not Accepted Anywhere

• "Rats", a song by Pearl Jam from the album Vs.

• "Rät", a song by Penelope Scott

Other

• Rats (advertisement), a 2000 political ad

• "Rat" (short story), by James Patrick Kelly

• "Rats" (short story), by M. R. James

• "Rats", an episode of The Protector

• Rats!, a 1998 2D platform video game

Other uses

• Rat (zodiac), a Chinese zodiac sign

• Rat or shoulder tender, a cut of beef

• Rat, slang for an informant, or to inform

• Rat, a device for forming a hair bun

• Pro Co RAT, a guitar distortion pedal

• Rat (newspaper), a New York City underground newspaper

• The Remote Associates Test of creativity potential

• Rat, a colloquial name for muskrat

See also

• The Rat (disambiguation)

• The Rats (disambiguation)

• Rât (disambiguation)

• RAT test (disambiguation)

• Raat (disambiguation)

• Ratt (disambiguation)

• RRAT, rotating radio transients

• Lab rat (disambiguation)

• Tunnel Rat (G.I. Joe), a fictional character