Snare most often refers to:

• Snare drum

• Snare trap, a kind of trap used for capturing animals

Snare may also refer to:

Art and entertainment

• Snare, a science fiction novel by Katharine Kerr

• Snare, a Decepticon in the Transformers universe

• The Snare (1912 film), American silent film

• The Snare (1918 film), British silent film

• Snare, the supervillain alias of Carla Draper in DC Comics.

Medicine

• SNARE (protein), a family of proteins involved in vesicle fusion

• Snare technique (surgery), a technique used for surgical extraction and cauterization

• Vascular snare, a surgical device

People

• C. J. Snare, a rock and roll singer

• Joanne Snare, American laser scientist

Other uses

• Snare (software), a group of security tools for logging computer activity

• The Snares, a group of islands approximately 200 kilometres south of New Zealand

• Snares penguin, a bird indigenous to the islands