Crusader or Crusaders most commonly refers to:

Crusaders, the participants in one of the Crusades, religious wars of the High Middle Ages

Crusader, Crusaders and variations may also refer to:

Military

Convair NB-36H, an experimental nuclear-powered bomber nicknamed 'The Crusader'

Crusader tank, a British cruiser tank of World War II

Crusaders (guerrilla), a Croatian anti-communist guerrilla army

F-8 Crusader, a U.S. Navy fighter jet

XF8U-3 Crusader III, an experimental fighter intended to replace the F-8

HMS Crusader, three British ships

Operation Crusader, a British attack in North Africa in the Second World War

Crusaders, former nickname of VMFA-122, a United States Marine Corps unit

XM2001 Crusader, an American self-propelled artillery project

Arts, entertainment, and media

Music

Albums

Crusader (Chris de Burgh album), released in 1979

Crusader (Saxon album), released in 1984

The Crusader (album), the 2003 debut album by New Zealand rapper Scribe

Groups

The Crusaders (jazz fusion group), an American jazz/jazz fusion group, formerly the Jazz Crusaders

The Crusaders (garage band), a 1960s garage band from Los Angeles who released first Gospel rock record

The Crusaders, Neil Christian's backing group

Boston Crusaders Drum and Bugle Corps, a Drum Corps International World Class drum corps

Oregon Crusaders Drum and Bugle Corps, a DCI Open Class drum corps

Films

The Crusaders (1918 film), an Italian film

The Crusader (1932 film), a film starring Evelyn Brent

The Crusaders (2001 film), an Italian television mini-series

Crusader (film), a 2005 TV movie starring Bo Derek and Andrew McCarthy

Fictional characters

Crusader (Dungeons & Dragons), a Dungeons & Dragons character Class

Crusader (Marvel Comics), two different fictional characters in Marvel Comics

Crusader, an alias used by a character claiming to be Marvel Boy

Crusaders (DC Comics), a name used by a team of DC Comics superheroes

Crusaders (Marvel Comics), a name by a similar team from Marvel Comics

"The Crusaders", a 1992 DC Comics relaunch of Mighty Crusaders, a comics superhero team

Games

Crusader (game series), a 1995 action computer game series

Crusader: Adventure Out of Time, a 1997 video game

Stronghold: Crusader, a 2001 computer strategy game

Literature

Crusader (Bloor novel), a 1999 novel by Edward Bloor

Crusader (Sara Douglass novel), a 1999 fantasy novel by Sara Douglass

The Crusaders, a 1948 bestseller by Stefan Heym

The Crusaders. An Historical Romance, of the Twelfth Century, an 1820 novel by Louisa Stanhope

Periodicals

Many newspapers have used The Crusader as a title, including:

Crusader, a newspaper of the African Blood Brotherhood

Crusader, a publication of College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts

Crusader, a newspaper of The Knights Party

The New Orleans Crusader, also known as the Crusader and Weekly Crusader, a publication that carried entries from Rodolphe Desdunes

Other arts, entertainment, and media

Crusader (TV series), a 1955–1956 adventure/drama television series starring Brian Keith

"The Crusaders", the initial name of Southern Knights, a comic series started in 1982

The Crusader (sculpture), a 1931 Lorado Taft sculpture in Chicago's Graceland Cemetery

Sports

Athletics teams

Bishop Heelan Catholic High School Crusaders, Sioux City, Iowa

Belmont Abbey College Crusaders, the athletic teams of Belmont Abbey College, Belmont, North Carolina