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A corsair (sometimes referred to as a buccaneer) is a privateer or a pirate.
- Barbary pirates (AKA Barbary or Ottoman corsairs)
- French corsairs
Corsair may also refer to:
Military
- Vought F4U Corsair, a US Navy World War II and Korean War fighter aircraft
- Vought SBU Corsair, a US Navy biplane dive bomber first flown in 1933
- Vought O4U Corsair, two different experimental biplane scout-observation aircraft, neither of which entered regular service
- LTV A-7 Corsair II, a US Navy and later US Air Force jet attack aircraft
- O2U Corsair, a US Navy biplane scout and observation aircraft
- Corsair, a subclass of the Tench-class submarine, a US Navy World War II class
- USS Corsair (SS-435), a US Navy submarine
Transportation
Air
- Cessna 425, originally known as Corsair
Sea
- Corsair II a yacht built by J. P. Morgan in 1891 which served as USS Gloucester (1891) during the Spanish–American War
- Corsair III, a yacht built in 1898 by Morgan that served the Navy in World Wars I and II, in the latter as USS Oceanographer (AGS-3)
- Corsair IV, J. P. Morgan, Jr. yacht, the largest built in the United States, launched April 10, 1930
- Corsair (dinghy), a class of sixteen-foot three-handed sailing dinghies
Land
- Edsel Corsair, an American automobile of the late fifties
- Ford Corsair, a British car model of the late 1960s, and an Australian model of the late 1980s
- Corsair motorcycle, built by Cotton
- Corsair, a GWR 3031 Class locomotive that was built for and run on the Great Western Railway between 1849 and 1873
Companies
- Corsair Components, a hardware company that specializes in designing and manufacturing computer memory, power supply units and computer cases
- Corsair International (formerly Corsairfly and Corsair), a French airline
- Corsair Marine, a builder of trimaran sailboats
Arts and entertainment
Music
- The Corsairs, a 1960s doo wop group
- "Corsair", a song on the 2002 album Geogaddi by Boards of Canada
- "Corsair", a 2007 song from the EP Voyage by In Fear and Faith
In print
- The Corsair, an 1814 poem by Lord Byron
- Corsair (comics), a fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe
- Corsair, a nautical historical novel by Dudley Pope, published in 1987
- Corsair (Bunch novel), a 2001 fantasy novel by Chris Bunch
- Corsair (Cussler novel), a 2009 adventure novel by Clive Cussler
Film and television
- Corsair (film), a 1931 American gangster film
- The Corsair, a Time Lord in the British TV series Doctor Who
Video games
- Corsairs: Conquest at Sea, a 1999 game by Microïds
- Corsairs (Freelancer), a fictional criminal organization in Freelancer
- Corsair, an evolution to the Gambler class in Final Fantasy XI: Treasures of Aht Urhgan
- The Corsair, a persona in the Assassin's Creed: Revelations multiplayer game
Other uses
- Corsair (Novell), a former operating system and user interface project for NetWare
- Corsair Bay, a bay located in Lyttelton Harbour, Canterbury New Zealand
See also
- Corsaire (disambiguation)
- Corsaren (The Corsair), a 19th-century Danish satirical and political weekly magazine
- Korsaren (The Corsair), a late 19th-century/early 20th-century Norwegian satirical magazine
- Corsar, a Ukrainian anti-tank missile
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