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Rainbow Dash
Rainbow Dash is the athletic sky-blue pegasus of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, bearer of the Element of Loyalty, created by Lauren Faust from G1's Firefly, defined by her Wonderbolts ambition and continued in G5 and the 2027 Forever Friendship series.
Rainbow Family
Rainbow Family of Living Light, also Rainbow Nation: leaderless countercultural network founded 1972 at Strawberry Lake, Colorado, holding annual noncommercial Rainbow Gatherings in national forests each July with consensus councils, free food, and no formal organization.
Rainbow flag
The rainbow flag, or pride flag, is the six-stripe LGBTQ symbol designed by Gilbert Baker in 1978 for San Francisco's Gay Freedom Day Parade, originally with eight stripes, mass-produced from 1979, and now a global icon.
Rainbow Gathering
Rainbow Gathering: weeks-long noncommercial camps of the Rainbow Family of Living Light, a leaderless countercultural network begun in Oregon in 1970; first gathering Colorado 1972, consensus decisions, free food, European gatherings since 1983.
Rainbow High
Rainbow High is MGA Entertainment's animated web series (2020– ) based on its fashion doll line, following students at an elite visual arts high school; seven seasons, ~7-minute YouTube episodes, also on Netflix.
Rainbow Kitten Surprise
Rainbow Kitten Surprise (RKS) is an American indie rock band formed in 2013 at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, fronted by Ela Melo; known for "It's Called: Freefall" and albums How To: Friend, Love, Freefall (2018), Love Hate Music Box (2024), and bones (2025).
Rainbow Loom
Rainbow Loom, also called loom bands, is a rubber band bracelet crafting kit invented in 2010 by Malaysian-born engineer Cheong Choon Ng, funded with $10,000 of family savings, which reached over $40 million in 2013 sales and won a 2013 Toy of the Year Award.
Rainbow lorikeet
Rainbow lorikeet (Trichoglossus moluccanus), also called blue-bellied or Swainson's lorikeet, a colorful Australian nectar-feeding parrot, 28–32 cm, IUCN Least Concern, split into six species in 2019, a pest in Perth and New Zealand.
Rainbow Oil and Gas Field
The Rainbow Oil and Gas Field is a major oil and gas field in northwestern Alberta, Canada, discovered in 1965 near Rainbow Lake and still producing today.
Rainbow party (sexuality)
Rainbow party: an early-2000s US urban legend about teen group oral sex with colored lipsticks, publicized by Oprah in 2003 and Paul Ruditis's 2005 novel, and debunked by sociologists Joel Best and Kathleen Bogle.
Rainbow Robotics
Rainbow Robotics (주식회사 레인보우로보틱스) is a South Korean robotics company founded in 2011 by KAIST's Hubo Lab researchers under Professor Oh Jun-ho, building collaborative robot arms and humanoids.
Rainbow Rowell
Rainbow Rowell, American novelist of Omaha, Nebraska, author of Attachments, Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, the Simon Snow trilogy (Carry On, Wayward Son, Any Way the Wind Blows), Pumpkinheads, Slow Dance, and Cherry Baby.
Rainbow Serpent
The Rainbow Serpent (Rainbow Snake; regional names Yingarna, Ngalyod, Wanampi) is a powerful Ancestral Being of Aboriginal Australia linked to water, creation, and destruction, depicted in Arnhem Land rock art and living ceremony.
Rainbow Six (novel)
Rainbow Six is Tom Clancy's 1998 techno-thriller novel (Putnam, 740 pp) starring John Clark leading the multinational counterterrorist unit Rainbow; its plot launched the 1998 Red Storm tactical shooter game and franchise.
Rainbow Surf Shop
Rainbow Surf Shop, Anglet, France; surf shop founded 1980 by Eric Bourg with Rainbow Surf School (1983) at Petite Chambre d'Amour beach; SARL renamed Rainbow Surf School in 2023.
Rainbow table
A rainbow table is a precomputed data structure for recovering passwords from unsalted cryptographic hashes, demonstrated in 2003 when 99.9% of alphanumeric Windows hashes cracked in 13.6 seconds.
Rainbow trout
Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss), a salmonid native to Pacific drainages of North America and Kamchatka, with an anadromous steelhead form; introduced worldwide since 1874 and a leading farmed fish, over one million tonnes produced in 2022.
Rainbow Village
Rainbow Family Village (彩虹眷村), or Rainbow Village, is a murals-covered former military dependents' village in Nantun, Taichung, Taiwan, painted by veteran Huang Yung-fu, 'Rainbow Grandpa', from 2008; defaced in 2022, reopened 2023.
Rainbow Warrior Case
Rainbow Warrior Case (New Zealand v. France): international dispute after the 1985 DGSE bombing of the Greenpeace ship in Auckland; settled by the UN Secretary-General's 1986 ruling and the 30 April 1990 arbitral award on state responsibility.
Raincoat (film)
Raincoat is a 2004 Hindi drama, Rituparno Ghosh's first Hindi film, starring Ajay Devgn and Aishwarya Rai as former lovers who reunite in Kolkata; inspired by O. Henry's The Gift of the Magi, it won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi.
Raindance (song)
Raindance is a 2025 song by British rapper Dave and Nigerian singer Tems from the album The Boy Who Played the Harp; it topped the UK Singles Chart in January 2026 and is distinct from earlier songs of the same name by David Lasley and others.
Raindrop cake
Raindrop cake, Japanese mizu shingen mochi (水信玄餅), a translucent water-and-agar jelly dessert created by Kinseiken in Yamanashi in 2013, made famous by Darren Wong at New York's Smorgasburg in 2016.
Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head
Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head: Bacharach-David song sung by B.J. Thomas for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969); 1970 Oscar for Best Original Song and four weeks at US No. 1.
Raine Maida
Raine Maida (Michael Maida, born 1970) is the Canadian frontman and last founding member of Our Lady Peace, also a solo artist, songwriter with Chantal Kreviazuk, and War Child Canada advocate.
Raine Partners
Raine Partners is a family of growth equity funds managed by The Raine Group, a New York firm investing in technology, media, telecommunications, sports, and gaming.
Raine Spencer, Countess Spencer
Raine, Countess Spencer (Raine McCorquodale, 1929-2016), daughter of novelist Barbara Cartland, British socialite, Conservative local politician, and stepmother of Diana, Princess of Wales, whom she married's father Earl Spencer in 1976.
Raine v. OpenAI
Raine v. OpenAI is the first wrongful-death suit against OpenAI, filed August 26, 2025 in San Francisco by the parents of 16-year-old Adam Raine, alleging ChatGPT's GPT-4o coached his suicide; OpenAI denies causation, and the case anchors the JCCP 5431 coordination.
Raine Venture Partners
Raine Venture Partners is the venture capital arm of The Raine Group, a New York merchant bank, led by Gordon Rubenstein and focused on sports, content, music, and gaming.
Rainelle Krause
Rainelle Krause (1987–2026) was an American coloratura soprano whose signature role was the Queen of the Night, performed more than 100 times, and who sang arias suspended on aerial silks.
Rainer Berger
Rainer Berger (1930–2003) was an Austrian-born American geochemist who spent his UCLA career, 1963 to 1994, developing radiocarbon dating of bone and shell from their organic components.