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A nerd is a person who is intellectually knowledgeable or bright, but socially inept.

Nerd(s) or The Nerd(s) may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

• Nerd, a fictional creature from Dr. Seuss's 1950 book If I Ran the Zoo
• The Nerd, a character from the Adult Swim animated series Robot Chicken
• The Nerd, the main character in the Angry Video Game Nerd web series that started in 2004

Television

• FC Nerds, reality television sports franchise
• Nerds FC, a 2006 Australian television soccer documentary series
• The Nerds, a 1979 series of Saturday Night Live sketches

Other media

• N.E.R.D.S., a book series
• The Nerd (play), a 1981 Broadway comedy play written by Larry Shue
• N.E.R.D., a rock/hip hop group fronted by Pharrell Williams
• Nerds 2.0.1, a 1998 documentary film
• NERD, a science and technology journal published by students of the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Businesses

• NERD (television production company), a company associated with Survivor creator Charlie Parsons
• Nintendo European Research & Development, a French subsidiary of Nintendo

Medicine

• Nodules–eosinophilia–rheumatism–dermatitis–swelling syndrome (NERDS syndrome)
• Nonerosive reflux disease, a form of gastroesophageal reflux disease
• NSAID-exacerbated respiratory disease (N-ERD)

Other uses

• Navy eReader Device (NeRD), e-reader developed by the United States Navy
• NERD (sabermetrics), a baseball statistic
• Nerds (candy), a candy
• N3RD Street, nickname for a segment of North 3rd Street, Philadelphia, US

See also

• NERTZ, a podcast by Mathew Klickstein
• King of the Nerds, an American game shows series from 2013
• King of the Nerds (British TV series), a British version from 2015
• Revenge of the Nerds (film series)
• Nurd (disambiguation)