Rake describes the angle made by a sloped surface with respect to a horizontal or vertical reference. The usages of this term include:

• A motorcycle or bicycle fork rake, the angle at which the forks are angled down towards the ground

• Rake angle in machining and sawing, the angle of a cutting head

• Rake (geology), the angle at which one rock moves against another in a geological fault

• Rake (theatre), the slope of a stage angled towards the audience for a better view

See also

• Rake (disambiguation)

• Pitch angle (kinematics), the amount by which a vehicle is tilted around a side-to-side axis