en Drift

Drift or Drifts may refer to:

Geography

Drift or ford (crossing) of a river
Drift (navigation), difference between heading and course of a vessel
Drift, Kentucky, unincorporated community in the United States
In Cornwall, England:
- Drift, Cornwall, village
- Drift Reservoir, associated with the village

Directional Recoil Identification from Tracks, a dark-matter experiment
Drift (video gaming), a typical game-controller malfunction
Drift pin, metalworking tool for localizing hammer blows and for aligning holes
Drift (geology), deposited material of glacial origin
drift (in mining), a roughly horizontal passage; an adit
Drift, linear term of a stochastic process
Drift (motorsport), the controlled sliding of a vehicle through a sharp turn, either via over-steering with sudden sharp braking, or counter-steering with a sudden "clutch kick" acceleration
Incremental changes:
- Drift (linguistics), a type of language change
- Genetic drift, change in allele frequency
- Drift (telecommunication), long-term change in an attribute of a system or equipment
- Clock drift - variation in time-keeping
- Frequency drift - oscillator offset in electrical engineering
- Concept drift (in data-science and machine-learning applications)

Drift (film series), 2006–2008 film series by Futoshi Jinno
Drift, 2006 TV crime drama film directed by Paul W. S. Anderson
Drift, fictional technology system that links the minds of two Jaeger pilots in the 2013 sci-fi film Pacific Rim and its sequel
Drift (2013 Australian film), film starring Sam Worthington
Drift (2013 Belgian film), art house film
Drift (2015 film), Swiss film
Drift (2017 film), German film
Drift, 2007 experimental short film by Max Hattler
Drift (2023 film), a film by Anthony Chen

The Drift (magazine)
Drift (novel), a 2002 Doctor Who novel
Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power, a book by Rachel Maddow
Plot drift, when a story deviates unexpectedly from its initial direction, in writing, television, or other media.

The Drift (band), American post-rock band
Songs:
- "Drift", 1985 song from work ‘’Secret’’
- "Drift" (Emily Osment song) (2011)
- "Drift", end credits song of 2013 film Pacific Rim
Albums/EPs:
- Drift (Flotsam and Jetsam album) (1995)
- The Drift, album by Scott Walker (2006)
- Drift (Ken Block album) (2008)
- Drift (Nosaj Thing album) (2009)
- The Drift (EP), by Michelle Channel and Arjun Singh (2014)
- Drift (Erra album) (2016)
- Drift (Underworld project), ongoing music-and-video experiment by that band (2018-2019)
- Drift (The Devlins album), 1993
Drift, short for drift phonk, a subgenre of phonk