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A turtle is a reptile, most of whose body is shielded by a special bony or cartilaginous shell.

Turtle(s) may also refer to:

Bird

• European turtle dove (archaic name: turtle)

Computing

• Turtle (robot), a class of educational robots used most prominently in the 1970s and 1980s
• Turtle (syntax), a Terse RDF Triple language
• Turtle F2F, a tool for exchanging content in an anonymous and secure way over a friend-to-friend (F2F) network
• Turtle graphics, using a relative cursor, the "turtle"
• Turtles, small values near the end of the list in sorting; See Comb sort

Entertainment

Places

• Turtle Mountain (Alberta), Canada

Retail brands

• Turtle's Records & Tapes, a defunct American retail chain
• Turtles (chocolate), a type of candy trademarked by DeMet's Candy Company

Watercraft

• Turtle (submersible), the first military diving bell, built during the American Revolutionary War
• DSV Turtle, a retired ocean research submersible of the US Navy

Other uses

• Turtle beans
• Botts' dots, often called turtles in Washington and Oregon
• Turtle, a member of the Ancient Order of Turtles, or Turtle Club
• Turtle, a member of NASA Astronaut Group 22
• Turtle, a type of spinning float, a breakdancing move

People named Turtle

• John Turtle (born 1937), Australian academic and endocrinologist
• Roger Turtle (fl. 1326 – 1344), English politician
• Tommy Turtle (1950–2020), a British Army officer from Ireland
• Turtle Bunbury (born 1972), Irish historian and author

See also

• TIRTL, a traffic logger and speed measurement device
• Turtling (disambiguation)
• Chelys, an ancient Greek lyre meaning "Turtle" or "Tortoise"
• All pages with titles beginning with Turtle