Contra may refer to:

Places

Contra, Virginia Contra is an unincorporated community in King and Queen County, Virginia Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States, between the East Coast of the Uni ...

* Contra Costa Canal, an aqueduct in the U.S. state of California *

Contra Costa County, California ) of the San Francisco Bay , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = United States , subdivision_type1 = State , subdivision_name1 = California , subdivision_type2 ...

* Tenero-Contra, a municipality in the district of Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland

People

* Cosmin Contra (born 1975), Romanian football player * Contra (writer) (real name Margus Konnula; born 1974), Estonian poet and translator *

Contra (rapper) Çağdaş Terzi (born 23 October 1989), better known by his stage name Contra, is a Turkish rapper and songwriter. He began his musical career with a single named "Ölü". In 2017 he released another single named "Ters Yön", however its beat was ...

(real name Çağdaş Terzi; born 1989), Turkish rapper and songwriter

Arts, entertainment, and media

Games

* Contra (card game), an historical German card game also known as Kontraspiel *

Contra (cards) Kontra or Contra is a term used in certain card games of Central European origin that is called by players to raise the stakes. It is the equivalent of "double" in other games. The term comes from the Latin word, ''contra'', which means "against". I ...

, a bid to double the stakes in many card games * ''Contra'' (series), a line of run and gun video games created by Konami ** ''Contra'' (video game), the original game, released in 1987

Music and dance

* ''Contra'' (album), the second album by Vampire Weekend * Contra (band), a band from Cleveland * "Contra" (song), a song by Logic *

Contra dance Contra dance (also contradance, contra-dance and other variant spellings) is a form of folk dancing made up of long lines of couples. It has mixed origins from English country dance, Scottish country dance, and French dance styles in the 17th ...

, several folk dance styles in which couples dance in two facing lines of indefinite length

Law and politics

* Contra (citation signal), a term used in legal citations *

Contra account Debits and credits in double-entry bookkeeping are entries made in account ledgers to record changes in value resulting from business transactions. A debit entry in an account represents a transfer of value ''to'' that account, and a credit ...

, or contra amount *

Contras The Contras were the various U.S.-backed and funded right-wing rebel groups that were active from 1979 to 1990 in opposition to the Marxist Sandinista Junta of National Reconstruction Government in Nicaragua, which came to power in 1979 ...

, Nicaraguan counter-revolutionaries opposed to the Sandinistas **

Iran–Contra affair The Iran–Contra affair ( fa, ماجرای ایران-کنترا, es, Caso Irán–Contra), often referred to as the Iran–Contra scandal, the McFarlane affair (in Iran), or simply Iran–Contra, was a political scandal in the United States ...

, the Reagan administration selling weapons to Iran to fund the Contras

Musical instruments

Contra-alto clarinet The contra-alto clarinet, E♭ contrabass clarinet, is a large clarinet pitched a perfect fifth below the B♭ bass clarinet. It is a transposing instrument in E♭ sounding an octave and a major sixth below its written pitch, between the ...

* Contrabass bugle, the lowest-pitched instrument in the drum and bugle corps hornline *

Contrabass clarinet The contrabass clarinet (also pedal clarinet, after the pedals of pipe organs) and contra-alto clarinet are the two largest members of the clarinet family that are in common usage. Modern contrabass clarinets are transposing instruments pitc ...

* Contrabass saxophone *

Contrabassoon The contrabassoon, also known as the double bassoon, is a larger version of the bassoon, sounding an octave lower. Its technique is similar to its smaller cousin, with a few notable differences. Differences from the bassoon The reed is cons ...

, or double bassoon, a larger version of the bassoon sounding an octave lower * Subcontrabass saxophone {{disambiguation