Torrent or torrents may refer to: * A fast flowing

stream A stream is a continuous body of water, body of surface water Current (stream), flowing within the stream bed, bed and bank (geography), banks of a channel (geography), channel. Depending on its location or certain characteristics, a stream ...

Animals

* Torrent duck, a species of the family Anatidae *

Torrent fish The torrentfish (''Cheimarrichthys fosteri''), or panoko (Māori), is an amphidromous freshwater fish that is endemic to New Zealand. Torrentfish are well adapted to life in shallow, fast-flowing riffles and rapids. They grow to a maximum of i ...

Torrent frog Torrent frogs are a number of unrelated frogs that prefer to inhabit small rapid-flowing mountain or hill streams with a lot of torrents. They are generally smallish neobatrachians with a greyish-brown and usually darkly mottled back, giving them e ...

, various unrelated frogs * Torrent robin, a bird species *

Torrent salamander The torrent salamanders or Cascade salamanders are a family of salamanders (Rhyacotritonidae) with only one genus, ''Rhyacotriton''. The torrent salamanders are endemic to the United States in the Pacific Northwest (including northwestern Calif ...

, a family of salamanders

Arts and entertainment

* ''Torrent'' (1926 film), starring Greta Garbo * ''The Torrent'' (1924 film), film directed by William Doner and A. P. Younger * '' The Torrent (Le Torrent)'', 2012 Canadian film directed by Simon Lavoie * '' The Torrents'', a 1955 Australian play * ''Torrent'' (play) (, ''Kuángliú''), a Chinese play about the life of Tian Han * ''Torrent'' (TV series), a technology show

Computing

* BitTorrent, a peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P) communications protocol * Torrent file, stores metadata used for BitTorrent

Corporations

* Torrent Group, an Indian business house, and its subsidiary companies: ** Torrent Cables ** Torrent Pharmaceuticals ** Torrent Power

People

* Ana Torrent (born 1966), Spanish actress * Domènec Torrent (born 1962), Spanish professional football manager * Marion Torrent (born 1992), French footballer *

Ramon Torrents Ramón Torrents (born 6 December 1937) is a Spanish comic book artist. Career Ramón Torrents was born in Barcelona, Catalonia, northern Spain. He began his career drawing for the comic ''Space Ace''. He later worked on romance comics for Brit ...

(born 1937), Spanish comic book artist *

Stanislas Torrents Stanislas Torrents (1839-1916) was a French painter. His parents were Spanish. His paintings are in the collections of many museums, including the Musée Louis Vouland in Avignon. Stanislas Torrents-Claire Charles-Roux.jpg, ''Mme Claire Charle ...

(1839–1916), French painter

Places

* Torrent, Valencia, a city in Spain *

Torrent, Girona Torrent is a village and municipality in the ''comarca'' of Baix Emporda, province of Girona and autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain. References External links Government data pages Municipalities in Baix Empordà Populated place ...

, a Spanish village * Torrent Bay, New Zealand *

Torrent Falls Torrent Falls is a landmark outdoor residential property near the small community of Torrent, Kentucky, USA, which is near Natural Bridge State Park, Red River Gorge and Daniel Boone National Forest in Kentucky. At one time, a health and vacation ...

, an outdoor area in Kentucky, United States *

Torrent River The Torrent River is a river of the Tasman Region of New Zealand's South Island. It flows east to reach Torrent Bay on the Tasman Bay / Te Tai-o-Aorere coast of the Abel Tasman National Park. The Abel Tasman Track crosses the river close to its ...

, which feeds into the bay *

River Torrent River Torrent is a river in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland which enters the River Blackwater approximately 4 km (2.5 mi) from Maghery ferry. It previously acted as a source of industrial waterpower. The river runs through the small v ...

, Northern Ireland *

Torrenthorn The Torrenthorn is a mountain of the Bernese Alps, overlooking Leukerbad in the canton of Valais Valais ( , , ; frp, Valês; german: Wallis ), more formally the Canton of Valais,; german: Kanton Wallis; in other official Swiss languages out ...

, a mountain of the Bernese Alps, Valais, Switzerland **

Torrent, Switzerland Leukerbad (french: Loèche-les-Bains, Walliser German: ''Leiggerbad'', although locally known as ''Baadu'') is a municipality in the district of Leuk in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. History The story of Leukerbad dates back to the 4th ...

, a ski area on Torrenthorn, near Leukerbad

Vehicles

Pontiac Torrent The Pontiac Torrent is a mid-size crossover SUV produced by General Motors for the 2006 to 2009 model years. A replacement for the Aztek, it was a mildly restyled version of the first-generation Chevrolet Equinox. The Torrent shared its basic b ...

, a crossover SUV automobile by GM's Pontiac from 2005 to 2009 * ''Torrent'' (ship), an American sailing ship wrecked in 1868

Other uses

FC Milwaukee Torrent FC Milwaukee Torrent is an American soccer team based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The club fields a men's and women's team. The men play in the National Premier Soccer League (NPSL), and the women play in the Women's Premier Soccer League (WPSL) ...

, a semi-professional soccer team based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin * Les Torrents, the sports teams of the

Université du Québec en Outaouais The Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO) is a constituent university of the Université du Québec system located in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada. As of September 2010, combined enrolment at UQO's Gatineau and Saint-Jérôme campuses was 6,017, ...

, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada