Raft (disambiguation)

A raft is a flat floating structure for travel over water.

Raft may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

 * Raft (band), a French band
 * Raft (novel), a science fiction novel by Stephen Baxter
 * Raft (video game), a survival game developed by Redbeet Interactive and published by Axolot Games
 * The Raft (comics), a fictional prison in comic books published by Marvel
 * "The Raft" (short story), a horror short story by Stephen King
 * The Raft, a fictional refugee flotilla in Neal Stephenson's novel Snow Crash

Computing and technology

 * Raft (computer science), a distributed consensus protocol
 * RaftLib, the Raft library for parallel processing with iostreams and compute kernels

Organizations

 * Remote Area Firefighting Team (RAFT), firefighting specialists
 * Resource Area for Teaching (RAFT), a nonprofit organization supplying materials and ideas to teachers

Science

 * RAFT (chemistry), reversible addition–fragmentation chain transfer
 * Lipid raft, a cholesterol-enriched microdomain in cell membranes
 * Raft spider, a European spider of the family Pisauridae

Other uses

 * Floating raft system, a type of design for the (underground) foundation of a building
 * George Raft (1901–1980), American film actor
 * Great Raft, a gigantic log jam in the Red River, Louisiana, U.S.
 * Raft Island, a private island in Pierce County, Washington, U.S.
 * Rafting, a recreational activity utilizing a raft
 * Timber rafting, a method for transporting felled tree trunks