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A riff is an example of ostinato, a short, repeated musical phrase.

Riff, RIFF, The Riff, or Riffs may also refer to:

Acronyms

Film festivals

• Reykjavík International Film Festival, Iceland
• Riga International Film Festival, Latvia
• Riverside International Film Festival, California, U.S.
• Riviera International Film Festival, Italy
• Rome Independent Film Festival, Italy

Other acronyms

• Rajasthan International Folk Festival, a music and arts festival in Jodhpur, India
• Resource Interchange File Format, a file container format for storing data

Fictional characters

• Riff, a character in Allegra's Window
• Riff (dinosaur), on Barney & Friends, a supporting character from 2006 to 2018
• Riff Randle, protagonist of the Ramones film Rock 'n' Roll High School
• Riff (Sluggy Freelance)
• The Riffs, a gang in the film The Warriors
• Riff, the leader of the Jets in West Side Story

Music

• Riff (American band), a 1980s–1990s R&B a cappella group
• The Riffs, American punk rock band
• Riff (Argentine band) a hard rock band
• "The Riff Song", a musical number from The Desert Song
• Riffs (Jimmy Lyons album)
• "The Riff" (Lordi song), 2013
• Riffs (Status Quo album), 2003
• "Riff", a song by Sander van Doorn from the album Supernaturalistic

Media

• The Riff, an Australian music video television show
• Riff: Everyday Shooter, a 2007 video game
• "The Riff", a name for WRIF, a radio station in Detroit, Michigan, US

See also

• RIF (disambiguation)
• Rif, a region of Morocco
• Riffian people, a Berber people of the Rif
• MSTing, or "riffing", a form of humorous media commentary
  • RiffTrax, a company that produces such humor