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Rip tide is a strong tidal flow of water within estuaries and other enclosed tidal areas.

Riptide or rip tide may also refer to:

• A common misnomer for a rip current, a fast narrow current running offshore and cutting through breaking waves

Amusement rides

• Riptide (Canada's Wonderland), a Top Spin ride
• Riptide, a pirate ship ride at Morey's Piers
• Rip Tide, a Top Spin ride at Knott's Berry Farm

Books

• Riptide (book series), short story anthologies
• Riptide (novel), by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, 1998
• Riptide, a novel by Catherine Coulter, 2000
• Riptide, a novel by Cherry Adair, 2011
• Riptide, a Star Wars novel by Paul S. Kemp, 2011
• Rip Tide, a novel in verse by William Rose Benét, 1932
• Rip Tide, a novel by Sam Llewellyn, 1992
• Rip Tide (novella), a Doctor Who novella by Louise Cooper, 2003
• Rip Tide, a novel by Kat Falls, 2011
• Rip Tide, a novel by Stella Rimington, 2011

Films and television

• Rip Tide (film), 2017 Australian film
• Riptide (1934 film), by Edmund Goulding
• Riptide (2013 film) (aka Ressac), a Canadian drama film by Pascale Ferland
• Riptide (American TV series), 1984–1986 American detective series
• Riptide (Australian TV series), 1969 Australian drama series starring Ty Hardin
• Riptide (2022 TV series), 2022 Australian drama miniseries

Music

• The Riptides, Australian power pop group formed in 1977
• The Riptides (Canadian band), Canadian punk rock band formed in 1998
• Riptide (album), 1985 album by Robert Palmer, or its title track
• The Rip Tide, 2011 album by Beirut
• "Riptide" (Sick Puppies song), 2011
• "Riptide" (Vance Joy song), 2013
• "Riptide" (The Chainsmokers song), 2022
• "Riptide", a 2022 single by Beartooth
• Rip Tide, background music in SpongeBob SquarePants

Sport

• Central Jersey Riptide, a defunct soccer team from Clark, New Jersey
• Los Angeles Riptide, a defunct outdoor lacrosse team from Carson, California
• New England Riptide, a defunct women's softball team from Lowell, Massachusetts
• New York Riptide, a box lacrosse team from Uniondale, New York
• Oregon Riptide, a defunct basketball team in Portland, Oregon
• San Diego Riptide, a defunct football team in San Diego, California
• Riptide, ringname of American professional wrestler Angel Orsini
• Riptide, a finisher move of the professional wrestler Rhea Ripley

Other

• Dead Island: Riptide, a 2013 video game
• Riptide ("Anaklusmos"), Percy Jackson's sword in the Percy Jackson & the Olympians book series
• Riptide Publishing, a publisher of LGBTQ fiction; see Bisexual literature § Riptide Publishing