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Real Steel
Real Steel (2011) is a Shawn Levy science fiction sports film starring Hugh Jackman, based on Richard Matheson's short story "Steel"; Charlie Kenton and son Max train the robot Atom, grossing $85.5M domestic on a $110M budget.
Real Surf
Real Surf names several unrelated surf businesses: Real Surf Shop in Shimoda, Japan (owner Naoto Suzuki, Narai boards); Real Surf Shop in Oceanside, California; The Real Surf Club surf school in Fuerteventura; and Real Surf in Wellington, NZ.
Real tennis
Real tennis, also called court tennis, royal tennis, or jeu de paume, is the medieval indoor racquet sport from which lawn tennis derives; played on enclosed asymmetric courts with penthouse roofs, handmade low-bounce balls, and asymmetrical racquets.
Real Time with Bill Maher
Real Time with Bill Maher is HBO's weekly hour-long political talk show, running since February 21, 2003 after Politically Incorrect's cancellation. Known for its monologue, interview, three-guest roundtable, and 'New Rules' segment, it was renewed through 2028, with season 24 premiering January 23, 2026.
Real Valladolid
Real Valladolid CF (Pucela), Spanish football club founded 1928 in Valladolid, playing at Estadio José Zorrilla (27,618); 43 top-flight seasons, Copa de la Liga 1984, owned by Ronaldo 2018-2025, now in Segunda.
Real wages
A real wage is a money wage adjusted for inflation, dividing nominal pay by a consumer price index; US real hourly earnings rose only 0.9% from 2020 to 2024.
Real Women Have Curves
Real Women Have Curves: 2002 HBO Films coming-of-age comedy-drama directed by Patricia Cardoso, starring America Ferrera as Ana García; Sundance Audience Award winner, first Latina-directed National Film Registry entry, adapted to Broadway in 2025.
Real Woods
Real Woods (Real Marshall Ray Woods, born 1999) is an American freestyle wrestler at 65 kg, 2025 World bronze medalist, four-time NCAA All-American for Stanford and Iowa, 2023 NCAA runner-up, and RAF featherweight titleholder.
Real World Records
Real World Records: British independent label founded 1989 by Peter Gabriel and WOMAD, based at Box Mill, Wiltshire; colour bar logo, Real World Studios, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Big Blue Ball.
Real World Seattle: Bad Blood
Real World Seattle: Bad Blood is season 32 of MTV's The Real World (2016), set in a Capitol Hill loft where seven roommates are joined by seven exes, rivals, and estranged family; 12 episodes, franchise firsts with phones and a returning reality cast member.
Real World: Ex-Plosion
Real World: Ex-Plosion is the 29th season of MTV's The Real World (San Francisco, 2014), the first twist season: five cast members' exes moved into the house mid-season, growing the cast to twelve.
Real World: Go Big or Go Home
Real World: Go Big or Go Home is the 31st season of the American reality series The Real World. It aired in 2016 and was set in Downtown Las Vegas.
Real World: Skeletons
Real World: Skeletons is the 30th season of MTV's The Real World, broadcast from December 2014 to March 2015, with seven roommates in Chicago whose pasts moved in as guests.
Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Fresh Meat
Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Fresh Meat (season 12, MTV, 2006) paired 12 Real World/Road Rules alumni with 12 first-time contestants in Australia; Darrell Taylor and Aviv Melmed won the $250,000 prize.
Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Duel
Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Duel is the 13th season of MTV's The Challenge, airing October 2006 to January 2007 in Búzios, Brazil. Its first individual format had 20 solo players facing head-to-head Duel eliminations; Jodi won $150,000.
Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Duel II
The Duel II (The Duel 2), 17th season of MTV's The Challenge, aired April 8 to June 17, 2009: 26 individual competitors in Queenstown, New Zealand; Rachel and Evan won $100,000 each of a $300,000 purse.
Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Gauntlet III
Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Gauntlet III (2008) was the 15th season of MTV's The Challenge and the third Gauntlet edition. It staged 32 Veterans versus Rookies in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, for $400,000, hosted by TJ Lavin, with the Rookies winning the Army Strong final.
Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Inferno II
Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Inferno II was the tenth season of MTV's The Challenge, the second Inferno edition (2005), filmed in Manzanillo, Mexico, drawing over 87 million viewers and pioneering the Inferno 2 After Show on MTV Overdrive.
Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Ruins
Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Ruins, season 18 of MTV's The Challenge (2009), filmed in Phuket, Thailand, pitted Champions against Challengers in weekly Ruins eliminations for $300,000, won by Derrick Kosinski, Evan Starkman, Johnny Devenanzio, Kenny Santucci, and Susie Meister.
Real Zaragoza
Real Zaragoza, Spanish football club founded 18 March 1932 from the Iberia SC and Zaragoza CD merger; six Copas del Rey, 1995 Cup Winners' Cup won by Nayim's goal vs Arsenal; old La Romareda demolished 2025, new stadium due 2027; relegated to Primera Federación in 2026.
Real-ESRGAN
Real-ESRGAN is an open-source image and video restoration model that extends ESRGAN to real photographs, created by Xintao Wang and colleagues at Tencent ARC Lab in 2021.
Real-life superhero
Real-life superhero (RLSH): a person adopting an original costumed superhero persona for community service, patrols, and outreach. Movement emerged mid-2000s after figures like 1974's Captain Sticky; studied as contested vigilantism.
Real-time analytics
Real-time analytics analyzes data as it arrives, in milliseconds to seconds, via event streams, Kafka-style ingestion, streaming or OLAP platforms, unlike batch analytics, supporting fraud detection and AI.
Real-time clock
A real-time clock (RTC) is a computer clock, usually an integrated circuit, that tracks the time and date and keeps running on battery backup when the system is off.
Real-time computing
Real-time computing, also called real-time processing, is computing whose correctness depends on results arriving on time, not just on their accuracy; late results count as system failure in hard real-time applications like flight control.
Real-time control of tearing modes
Real-time control of tearing modes is the set of tokamak techniques that detect and suppress tearing modes, magnetic instabilities, chiefly with steerable electron cyclotron current drive.
Real-time decoding of surface codes
Real-time decoding of surface codes means computing error-correction decisions from syndrome measurements fast enough to keep pace with a quantum processor's microsecond error-correction cycle, typically using FPGAs.
Real-time gross settlement
Real-time gross settlement (RTGS) is a funds transfer system in which interbank payments are settled individually and continuously in central bank money, giving immediate finality without netting.
Real-time hybrid simulation
Real-time hybrid simulation (RTHS) is a structural testing method that couples a physical laboratory specimen with a computer-simulated substructure, exchanging forces and displacements each time step to evaluate seismic response at lower cost than shake-table testing.
Real-time iteration scheme
The real-time iteration (RTI) scheme is an online algorithm for nonlinear model predictive control that performs one optimization iteration per sampling instant, introduced by Moritz Diehl and colleagues around 2001.