Air (disambiguation) explained

Air is the name given to the atmosphere of Earth.

Air or AIR may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Art

• Air (Maillol), a sculpture by Aristide Maillol
• Air (painting), a painting by Jan van Kessel the Elder

Films

• Air (2005 film), a 2005 anime adaptation of the visual novel
• Air (2015 film), an American post-apocalyptic film
• Air (2023 American film), an American biographical sports drama film
• Air (2023 Russian film), a Russian aviation film
• "Love is destructive", the first half of The End of Evangelion, a 1997 anime film

Music

Groups

• Air (French band), a French electronic music duo
• Air (free jazz trio), founded in 1971
• Air (jazz rock band), a jazz rock group featuring Tom and Googie Coppola
• Air (singer), Japanese singer

Albums

• Air (Cecil Taylor album), 1960
• Air (Agua de Annique album), 2007
• Air (Astronoid album), 2016
• Air (Sault album), 2022
• Air, an album by Air (jazz rock band), 1971
• Air, an album by Pete Namlook, 1993
• Air, an album by Kym, 2005
• Air, an album by Andreas Vollenweider, 2009
• AIR, an EP by Afgan, 2019

Songs

• "Air" (Tyson Ritter song), 2013
• Air (Marcus & Martinus song), 2023
• "Air", a song in the musical Hair
• "Air", Air on the G String, by Ekseption from their self-titled 1969 album Ekseption
• "Air", a song by Brian Eno and Talking Heads from the 1979 album Fear of Music
• "Air", a song by Ben Folds Five from the 1998 soundtrack
• "Air", a song by Sault from the 2022 album Air
• "Air", a song by Shawn Mendes and Astrid S from the 2015 album Handwritten
• "A.I.R.", a song by Anthrax from their 1985 album Spreading the Disease

Other music-related uses

• Air (music), a song-like vocal or instrumental composition
  • Air on the G String, August Wilhelmj's adaptation of an air by Johann Sebastian Bach
• Air de cour, secular vocal music in France in the late Renaissance and early Baroque period
• Air guitar, a form of dance and movement in which a performer pretends to play an imaginary guitar
• Associated Independent Recording (AIR), an independent recording company and recording studio based in London, UK
• Australian Independent Record Labels Association, organisation representing Australian-owned record labels and independent artists

Radio

• All India Radio, radio broadcast service in India
• Art International Radio, an arts-oriented radio station

Television

• AIR: America's Investigative Reports, PBS documentary series 2006–2007, retitled with second season in 2007
• "Air" (Stargate Universe), the series premiere of the television series Stargate Universe

Video games

• Air (video game), a 2000 Japanese visual novel
• Air, an air combat based mainframe computer game by Kelton Flinn

Other arts, entertainment, and media-related uses

• ABS-CBN International Report, a defunct international newscast of ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation
• A.I.R. Gallery, an all female artists cooperative gallery in the United States
• Air, a common colloquialism for a broadcast ("on air")
• Air (comics), a comic book series published by the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics
• AIR (nightclub), a 2000 capacity superclub located in Digbeth, Birmingham in the UK
• Air (novel), a 2005 novel by author Geoff Ryman
• Air (roller coaster), the former name of a flying roller coaster at Alton Towers theme park in the United Kingdom, now re-themed as Galactica
• Annals of Improbable Research, a bi-monthly magazine devoted to scientific humour
• Art Is Resistance, an organization in the game Year Zero

Brands and organisations

• AIR Worldwide (formerly named Applied Insurance Research) is a risk-modeling and data analytics company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts
• AAR Corporation (New York Stock Exchange ticker symbol AIR)
• Air Jordan, a popular brand of basketball shoes promoted by Retired Chicago Bulls Superstar, Michael Jordan
• American Institutes for Research, commonly abbreviated AIR, a social science research organization

Computing and technology

• AIR (program), a program suite for medical image registration
• Adobe AIR, a cross-platform run-time system
• iPad Air, an Apple tablet
• MacBook Air, an Apple ultraportable laptop

Places

• Aïr Mountains, a massif in northern Niger
• Sultanate of Agadez, also known as the Sultanate of Aïr
• Arab Islamic Republic, failed union attempt between Tunisia and Libya

People

• Donna Air (born 1979), British actress
• Glen Air (born 1978), Australian rugby league player
• Michael Jordan, American basketball player nicknamed His Royal Airness
• Steve McNair, American football player nicknamed Air

Science and healthcare

• Aminoimidazole ribotide
• Anterior interval release, a type of arthroscopic knee surgery
• Oxygen
• Gas or atmosphere of a planet
• The sky

Sports

• Adelaide International Raceway, a car-racing circuit in Adelaide, South Australia
• Air, a range of boardsport tricks consisting of jumps without rotation
• "Airs" above the ground, a term used in dressage

Technology

• Active Infrared, combines infrared illumination of spectral range 700–1,000 nm (just below the visible spectrum of the human eye) with CCD cameras sensitive to this light
• Air conditioning, any form of cooling, heating, ventilation or disinfection that modifies the condition of air
• Air injection reactor, a very early automobile emissions control system
• Air-to-air rocket or air interception rocket, an unguided projectile fired from aircraft to engage other flying targets

Transportation

• AIR, National Rail code of Airbles railway station, in Motherwell, Scotland
• AIR-X, a Soviet aircraft series by Yakovlev
• AIR, MTR station code of Airport station, Hong Kong
• Lucid Air, a 2021–present American electric executive sedan
• Wuling Air EV, a 2022–present Chinese electric microcar

Other uses

• Air (classical element), an element in ancient Greek philosophy and in Western alchemy
• Airoran language, an Indonesian language with ISO 639-3 code AIR
• Applied Innovative Research, a scientific journal
• Compressed air, the air kept under a pressure that is greater than atmospheric pressure
• Another word for ambience (character, mood, etc.).

See also

• Air University (disambiguation)
• Aiir (album), by British band Sault, 2022
• Aire (disambiguation)
• AIRS (disambiguation)
• Ayr (disambiguation)
• Ayre, one of six sheadings in the Isle of Man
• Éire