Trap

Trap or Traps may refer to:

• Trap, Carmarthenshire, a hamlet in Wales
• Giovanni Trapattoni (born 1939), Italian association football coach and former player also known as sometimes known as "Trap" or "Il Trap"
• Tactical Recovery of Aircraft and Personnel, a U.S. military term for a rescue mission to retrieve a downed aircraft
• TRAP law ("Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers"), a type of legislation used to restrict abortion providers
• a pejorative term for a person who passes so well as female that they could be chosen as partner despite having unexpected (male-typical) genitalia, implying deceitful intention on the part of the person
• Slang for crack house

Capturing method

Device

• Animal trapping
  • Mousetrap
  • Bird trapping
    • Heligoland trap, a kind of bird trap
  • Fish trap
  • Insect trap
• Man-trap
• Booby trap
• Chemical trap, a chemical compound usable for capturing an elusive molecule
• Penning trap, used to store charged particles

Tactic

• Canary trap, a method for exposing an information leak
• Chess trap, a move intended to induce the opponent to blunder
• Honey trap, a form of sting operation in law enforcement
• Neutral zone trap, a defensive strategy in ice hockey
• Speed trap, a tactic designed to catch speed limit violators, or a place where such a tactic is commonly used
• Trap street, an intentionally incorrectly rendered street on a map

Hindrance

• Sand trap, a type of hazard in golf
• Welfare trap, a phenomenon by which social policies interact to keep people dependent on welfare
• High level equilibrium trap, a concept used to explain why China never underwent an indigenous Industrial Revolution
• Liquidity trap, a concept in economics involving a stagnant economy and low interest rates
• Carrier trap, a type of defect in a semiconductor

Science

• Magnetic trap (disambiguation), various meanings, in physics

Biology

• Ecological trap
• Evolutionary trap
• Perceptual trap
• Tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase, a metalloenzyme involved in bone formation.
• Thrombin receptor activating peptide
• Thyroid Hormone Receptor-associated Proteins, a transcriptional coactivator
• TNF receptor associated periodic syndrome, the cutaneous condition tumor necrosis factor receptor associated periodic syndrome
• TNF-related activation protein, also known as CD40 ligand.
• Tripartite ATP-independent periplasmic transporter, a family of prokaryotic solute transporters.
• trp RNA-binding attenuation protein, a RNA-binding protein regulating the biosynthetis of tryptophan
• Twin reversed arterial perfusion, a twin pregnancy abnormality

Geology

• Sediment trap (geology)
• Structural trap (in petroleum geology)
• Trap basalt, a type of rock formation
• Trap rock, a fine-grained, dark-colored igneous rock

Large igneous provinces

• Deccan Traps, in west-central India
• Emeishan Traps, in southwestern China
• Paraná and Etendeka traps, dismembered large igneous province in Brazil and southwestern Africa
• Siberian Traps, in eastern Russia

Technology

• Trap (car), a secret compartment in an automobile
• Trap (carriage), a type of horse-drawn carriage
• Trap (computing), a code or signal designed to capture errors and reveal where they are
• Trap (plumbing), a U-shaped pipe located below a drain; also called a water seal
• Trap (printing), a commercial printing technique to overcome registration problems
• TRAP (processor instruction)
• Deep-level trap, a crystalline defect in a semiconductor material
• Ink trap, a feature of some typefaces that are spaces where printing ink can accumulate

Art, entertainment, and media

• Trap (poker), a strategy
• Trap music, a genre
• Trap (novel) (1966) novel by Peter Mathers
• Trap room, a part of a theater
• Traps (TV series), an American police drama

Films

• The Trap (1966 film), Canadian/UK, by Sidney Hayers
• Traps (1994 film), Australian, by Pauline Chan
• A Trap (1997), Polish
• Trap (2015 film), Filipino

Musical works

• "Trap" (Henry Lau song) (feat. Taemin and Kyuhyun)
• Albums
  • Trap (Dead Man Ray album), 2000
  • Trap (Henry Lau album)
  • Traps (album), 2012 by Jaill

Sports

• Bat and trap, an old game related to cricket
• Neutral zone trap, an ice hockey defensive strategy
• Trap run, an American football play
• Trap shooting, a form of competitive clay pigeon shooting
• Triathlon Association of the Philippines, the governing body for the sports of triathlon in the Philippines.

See also

• Ambush
• "It's a Trap!"
• Sand trap (disambiguation)
• Trapdoor
• Trapezius muscle
• The Trap (disambiguation)
• Trapped (disambiguation)
• Trapper (disambiguation)
• Trapping (disambiguation)