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'Drift' may refer to:
The effect of wind and water pushing a body (person or thing around) usually in a current. A ''difference in drift rates'' becomes an urgent matter in a ''Man Over Board'' Event, and a ''positional drift'' constantly concerns Navigators and Pilots conning large vessels as well as Aviators conning aircraf: world-wide.

★ Drifting (motorsport), which is a sport where drivers intentionally induce oversteer, to be judged on their technique.

★ Drift (railroad), which in railroading is the cutting off of power and using inertia alone to maintain forward movement.

★ Drift, which is a term used to describe a shallow river crossing in South Africa:

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★ Pont Drift on the Limpopo River on the road between South Africa and Botswana.

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★ Rorke's Drift, which is the site of 1879 battle between British and Zulu forces.

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★ Mostert's Drift, near Jonkershoek, on the Eerste River at Stellenbosch.

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★ Mulder's Drift, near Johannesburg on the road between Krugersdorp and Pretoria.

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★ Velddrif, which is a town on the west coast Bergrivier Local Municipality.

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★ Xuka Drift on the upper reaches of the Mbashe River near Ngcobo in the Eastern Cape.

★ Drift, Cornwall: a village – Drift Reservoir is nearby

★ Drift (linguistics): the variation of speech.

★ Drift (telecommunication): the slow long-term variation of an attribute or value of a system or device.

★ Drift (plasma physics): the motion of the guiding centers of magnetized plasmas' particles.

★ Drift mining: a nearly horizontal underground tunnel.

★ Drift (geology): rock debris transported and deposited by or from ice, especially by or from a glacier.

★ Drift pin: several kinds of tools used for enlarging or aligning holes.

★ Genetic drift: mechanism of evolution that change the characteristics of species over time.

★ Snow drift: a deposit of snow created by the wind

★ Ice drift: drift of sea ice

★ Clock drift: a phenomenon where a clock does not run in the exact right speed compared to another clock.

★ The condition where a motor vehicle's rear wheels slip at a greater angle than the front wheels; see oversteer.

★ Intentional use of oversteer for faster cornering in low road surface traction conditions; see Opposite lock

★ Drift - Dancer without a body, an online dance film. [1]

★ Drift (film), a Japanese film. [2](Japanese only movie link)

★ Drift (Fluid Mechanics): the permanent displacement of fluid particles in an inviscid fluid owing to their kinematic motion when a body passes through it.

★ Drift (album) is the fifth album by Flotsam and Jetsam.

★ Drift (Doctor Who), a ''Doctor Who'' novel.
''See also'':

★ Driftwood

★ Continental drift