# Trap

A trap is a device used for trapping animals.
Trap or TRAP may also refer to:

## Art and entertainment
### Films and television

* Trap (2015 film), a Filipino film
* Trap (2024 film), an American film by M. Night Shyamalan
* Traps (1994 film), an Australian film by Pauline Chan
* A Trap, a 1997 Polish film
* Trap (TV series), a 2019 South Korean television series
* Traps (TV series), a 1994 American police family drama

### Music

* Trap music, a subgenre of hip hop that originated in the 1990s in the Southeastern United States
* Trap music (EDM), a subgenre of electronic dance music that originated in the 2010s
* Trap (EP), debut by Henry, 2013
* Trap (Dead Man Ray album), 2000
* "Trap" (Shakira song) (featuring Maluma), 2018
* "Trap", a song by Elizaveta from Messenger
* "The Trap", a song from Playland by Johnny Marr
* "The Trap", a song from Good & Evil by Tally Hall
* Traps (album), 2012 by Jaill
* "Traps", a single from the Bloc Party album Alpha Games, 2021
* Traps, a stage name used by the drummer Buddy Rich

### Other uses in art and entertainment

* Trap (novel), by Peter Mathers, 1966
* Traps (Scott novel), a 2013 novel by MacKenzie Scott
* A Dangerous Game (novel), a 1956 novel by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, known as Traps in the United States
* Claptrap, a fictional character from the Borderlands video game series
* Trap room, a part of a theatre
* Treasury Relief Art Project (1935–39), a New Deal art project

## Biology and medicine

* Trapezius, a muscle
* Tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase, a metalloenzyme involved in bone formation
* Mediator (coactivator) or thyroid hormone receptor-associated proteins
* TNF-related activation protein, also known as CD40 ligand
* Tripartite ATP-independent periplasmic transporter, in prokaryotes
* trp RNA-binding attenuation protein, in bacilli
* US TRAP laws ("Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers")
* TNF receptor associated periodic syndrome (TRAPS)
* Twin reversed arterial perfusion, a twin pregnancy abnormality

## Games

* Trap (chess)
* Trap (poker), a strategy
* Trap pass, see Glossary of contract bridge terms

## Places

* Tarap, Attock, a village in Pakistan
* Trap, Mogila, a village in North Macedonia
* Trap, Carmarthenshire, a hamlet in Wales, United Kingdom
* Trap Grounds, a nature reserve in Oxford, England, United Kingdom

## Science and technology

* Chemical trap, a chemical compound that is used to detect unstable compounds
* Magnetic trap, the use of magnetic fields to isolate atoms or particles
* Petroleum trap, a geological structure that forms a petroleum reservoir
* Social trap, a psychological system where people, operating for short-term individual gains, lead to long-term group losses
* Trap rock, any dark-colored, fine-grained, non-granitic igneous rock
* Trap and trace device, records any number called by, or calling, a particular telephone
* Trap (plumbing), a pipe to prevent the release of gases
* Trap (printing), a commercial-printing technique to overcome registration problem

### Computing

* Interrupt, a request for the processor to interrupt executing code
* A type of Simple Network Management Protocol Protocol Data Unit used to report an alert or other asynchronous event about a managed subsystem
* Intercepting normal method calls via a proxy object

## Sports

* Neutral zone trap, an ice hockey defensive strategy
* Sand trap, a type of bunker (golf)
* Starting Traps, the equipment that racing greyhounds start a race from
* Trap shooting
* Triathlon Association of the Philippines, the governing body for the sport in the Philippines

## Transportation

* Trap (car), a secret compartment in an automobile
* Trap (carriage), a type of horse-drawn carriage
* Traffic-related air pollution

## Other uses

* Trapdoor
* Operation Trap, code name of a large-scale Soviet offensive operation against the Mujahideen supply base of Karkari-Sharshari
* Tactical Recovery of Aircraft and Personnel, a U.S. military term for a rescue mission to retrieve a downed aircraft
* Training-Repayment-Agreement Provision, a part of an employment bond or contract which stipulates that the cost of on-the-job training will be borne by the employee