Air (disambiguation)
# Air (disambiguation)

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 film), an American biographical sports drama film
* "Air/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", a song 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 Godzilla: The Album
* "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 Exposé: America's Investigative Reports 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.).
