# Crusader

Crusader or Crusaders may refer to:

## Military

* Crusader, a participant in one of the Crusades
* Convair NB-36H Crusader, an experimental nuclear-powered bomber
* Crusader tank, a British cruiser tank of World War II
* Crusaders (guerrilla), a Croatian anti-communist guerrilla army
* F-8 Crusader, a U.S. Navy fighter jet
** XF8U-3 Crusader III, an experimental fighter intended to replace the F-8
* HMS Crusader, three British ships
* Operation Crusader, a British attack in North Africa in the Second World War
* VMFA-122 Crusaders, United States Marine Corps fixed wing Fighter-Attack Squadron 122
* XM2001 Crusader, an American self-propelled artillery project

## Arts, entertainment, and media
### Fictional characters

* Crusader (Dungeons & Dragons), a Dungeons & Dragons character Class
* Crusader (Marvel Comics), two different fictional characters in Marvel Comics
* Crusader, an alias used by a character claiming to be Marvel Boy
* Caped Crusader, an epithet for Batman
* Crusader X, an alternate version of Captain Britain
* Crusaders (DC Comics), a name used by a team of DC Comics superheroes
* Crusaders (Marvel Comics), a name by a similar team from Marvel Comics
* Mighty Crusaders, an Archie comics superhero team, later licensed by DC Comics and relaunched as "The Crusaders" on the Imprint label
* JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders, the third part of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure anime

### Films

* Crusader (film), a 2005 TV movie starring Bo Derek and Andrew McCarthy
* "Crusaders" (original title Krzyżacy means "Crusaders"), a Polish film released as Knights of the Teutonic Order
* The Crusader (1932 film), a 1932 film starring Evelyn Brent
* The Crusader (2007 film), a 2007 direct-to-DVD motion picture
* The Crusaders (1918 film), a 1918 Italian film
* The Crusaders (2001 film), a 2001 Italian television mini-series

### Games

* Crusader (game series), a 1995 action computer game series
* Crusader: Adventure Out of Time, a 1997 video game
* Stronghold: Crusader, a 2001 computer strategy game

### Literature

* Crusader (Bloor novel), a 1999 novel by Edward Bloor
* Crusader (Sara Douglass novel), a 1999 fantasy novel by Sara Douglass
* The Crusaders, a 1948 bestseller by Stefan Heym
* The Crusaders. An Historical Romance, of the Twelfth Century, an 1820 novel by Louisa Stanhope

### Music
#### Albums

* Crusader (Chris de Burgh album), released in 1979
* Crusader (Saxon album), released in 1984
* The Crusader (album), the 2003 debut album by New Zealand rapper Scribe

#### Groups

* The Crusaders (jazz fusion group), a jazz and R&B group popular in the 1970s
* The Crusaders (garage band), a 1960s garage band from Los Angeles who released first Gospel rock record
* The Crusaders, Neil Christian's backing group
* Boston Crusaders Drum and Bugle Corps, a Drum Corps International World Class drum corps
* Oregon Crusaders Drum and Bugle Corps, a DCI Open Class drum corps

### Periodicals

Many newspapers have used The Crusader as a title, including:
* Crusader, a newspaper of the African Blood Brotherhood
* Crusader, a publication of College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts
* Crusader, a newspaper of The Knights Party
* The East St. Louis Crusader, a former newspaper in East St. Louise for African Americans
* The New Orleans Crusader, also known as the Crusader and Weekly Crusader, a publication that carried entries from Rodolphe Desdunes

### Other arts, entertainment, and media

* Crusader (TV series), a 1955–1956 adventure/drama television series starring Brian Keith
* Southern Knights, a comic series originally called the Crusaders in their first issue
* The Crusader (sculpture), a 1931 Lorado Taft sculpture in Chicago's Graceland Cemetery

## Sports
### Athletics teams

* Bishop Heelan Catholic High School Crusaders, Sioux City, IA
* Belmont Abbey College Crusaders, the athletic teams of Belmont Abbey College, Belmont, North Carolina
* Capital Crusaders, the athletic teams of Capital University, Columbus, Ohio
* Canisius Crusaders, the athletics teams of Canisius High School, Buffalo, NY
* Crusaders, the athletics teams of Chicago's Brother Rice High School
* Holy Cross Crusaders, the athletics teams of College of the Holy Cross
* North Greenville Crusaders, the athletic teams of North Greenville University, Tigerville, South Carolina
* Pensacola Catholic Crusaders, the sports teams of Pensacola Catholic High School
* Univ. of Dallas Crusaders, the sports teams of the University of Dallas

### Cricket teams

* Kandy Crusaders, a Sri Lankan domestic T20 cricket team

### Football teams

* Amsterdam Crusaders, an American football team from the Netherlands
* Carlstad Crusaders, an American football team from Sweden
* Crusaders F.C., an association football team from Northern Ireland

### Ice hockey teams

* Cleveland Crusaders, a World Hockey Association team from 1972 to 1976

### Rugby league teams

* London Broncos, an English rugby league club once known as London Crusaders
* Crusaders Rugby League, a defunct Welsh rugby league club, formerly the Celtic Crusaders
** North Wales Crusaders, Phoenix club of the above

### Rugby union teams

* Crusaders (rugby union), a rugby union team from New Zealand, formerly the Canterbury Crusaders
* Western Crusaders, a rugby union team from Fiji

### Other uses in sports

* Crusader (horse) (1923–1940), a United States racehorse
* Lucas Oil Crusader, a monster truck currently racing in the Monster Jam professional monster truck racing series

## Transportation
### Civilian aircraft and ships

* Crusader (speedboat), the jet speedboat in which John Cobb died
* American Gyro AG-4 Crusader, an aircraft built by the Crusader Aircraft Corporation
* Cessna T303 Crusader, a civilian aircraft
* Short Crusader, a racing seaplane built by Short Brothers

### Civilian ground vehicles

* Crusader (train), a streamlined train which operated between 1937 and 1981
* Crusader, a type of emergency ambulance in widespread use in the United Kingdom, originally developed by the St John Ambulance Brigade
* Crusader, a GWR 3031 Class locomotive that was built for and ran on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915
* Royal Enfield Crusader Sports, a 248cc motorcycle of the 1960s

## Other uses

* The Crusaders (repeal of alcohol prohibition), a group that promoted repeal of national alcohol prohibition in the U.S.
* Urban Saints, a Christian youth charity based in the United Kingdom previously known as Crusaders