Pirate or pirates can refer to

• Pirate - sea pirate
• Pirate radio - unauthorised broadcast, originally from a ship.
• Music, Movie piracy - see copyright infringement, trademark
• Pirate decryption of pay TV or satellite radio programming
• Software piracy
• Biopiracy
• Various sports teams have used the romanticized bad-boy image of pirates as their mascot, including
  • Pittsburgh Pirates
  • Tampa Bay Buccaneers
  • Oakland Raiders
  • East Carolina University Pirates
• The computer game Sid Meier's Pirates!