// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhy did the turtle go to jail? It was shell-shocked.

A turtle is a reptile, most of whose body is shielded by a special bony or cartilaginous shell.

Turtle(s) may also refer to:

Bird

• European turtle dove (archaic name: turtle)

Computing

• Turtle (robot), a class of educational robots used most prominently in the 1970s and 1980s
• Turtle (syntax), a Terse RDF Triple language
• Turtle F2F, a tool for exchanging content in an anonymous and secure way over a friend-to-friend (F2F) network
• Turtle graphics, using a relative cursor, the "turtle"
• Turtles, small values near the end of the list in sorting; See Comb sort

Entertainment

Fictional characters

• Turtle (comics), in DC Comics, two antagonists of The Flash
• Turtle (Entourage), a character in the HBO television series
• Turtle, a character in Barbara Kingsolver's novels, The Bean Trees and Pigs in Heaven

Gaming

• Turtle (game term), a defensive gaming strategy
• Turtles (video game), a 1981 arcade game by Konami
• Turtle Entertainment, a German esports organiser

Music

• The Turtles, an American folk-rock band, known for their 1967 song "Happy Together"
• Turtles (South Korean band), a K-Hip-Hop band
• "Turtle", a 2017 song by Twice from the album Twicetagram

Other media

• Turtle (magazine), a 1979–2014 American bi-monthly for preschoolers
• Turtle: The Incredible Journey, a 2009 German–British–Austrian documentary
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, a superhero franchise

Places

See also: Turtle Bay (disambiguation), Turtle Creek (disambiguation), Turtle Island (disambiguation), and Turtle Lake (disambiguation)

• Turtle Mountain (Alberta), Canada

United States

• Turtle, Missouri, a ghost town
• Turtle, Wisconsin, a town
• Turtle Mountains (California)
• Turtle Mound, a prehistoric archaeological site in Florida
• Turtle Pond, Central Park, Manhattan, New York
• The Turtle, a former Native American center in Niagara Falls, New York
• Rio Turtle or Turtle Rock, West Virginia

Retail brands

• Turtle's Records & Tapes, a defunct American retail chain
• Turtles (chocolate), a type of candy trademarked by DeMet's Candy Company

Watercraft

• Turtle (submersible), the first military diving bell, built during the American Revolutionary War
• DSV Turtle, a retired ocean research submersible of the US Navy

Other uses

• Turtle beans
• Botts' dots, often called turtles in Washington and Oregon
• Turtle, a member of the Ancient Order of Turtles, or Turtle Club
• Turtle, a member of NASA Astronaut Group 22
• Turtle, a type of spinning float, a breakdancing move

People named Turtle

• John Turtle (1937–2024), Australian academic and endocrinologist
• Roger Turtle (fl. 1326–1344), English politician
• Tommy Turtle (1950–2020), a British Army officer from Ireland
• Turtle Bunbury (born 1972), Irish historian and author

See also

• TIRTL, a traffic logger and speed measurement device
• Turtling (disambiguation)
• Chelys, an ancient Greek lyre meaning "Turtle" or "Tortoise"
• All pages with titles beginning with Turtle