Riviera is an Italian common name which means "coastline", derived from Old French. It came to be applied as a proper name to the coast of Liguria, in the form Riviera Ligure, then shortened to Riviera. The two areas currently known in English as "The Riviera" without additional qualification are: the French Riviera, part of the southern coast of France and the Italian Riviera, part of the coast of Italy. Riviera may be also applied to any coastline, especially one that is sunny, topographically diverse and popular with tourists. Such places called Riviera include: Africa Red Sea Riviera, the eastern shore of Egypt America American Riviera, Santa Barbara, California Mexican Riviera, the western coast of Mexico including Acapulco Riviera Maya, the Caribbean coast of the Yucatán peninsula Redneck Riviera, the Gulf of Mexico coast between Panama City, Florida and Gulf Shores, Alabama Asia and Oceania Chinese Riviera, coastal region in Zhuhai, China Australian Riviera, Gold Coast, Queensland Europe Albanian Riviera, in southern Albania Austrian Riviera, a former coastline of Austria-Hungary near Trieste on the Adriatic Sea Belgian Riviera, part of the Belgian coast Budva Riviera, in Montenegro Bulgarian Riviera, Bulgarian Black Sea Coast Caucasian Riviera, Russia: Sochi, Georgia: Abkhazia and Adjara Crimean Riviera, the southern coast of the Crimean peninsula English Riviera, Torbay in the southwest of England German Riviera, southern Baltic Sea coast of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Greek Riviera, the island of Spetses, Hydra and the eastern coast of Peloponnese Makarska Riviera, in Croatia Norrbottens riviera in Swedish Norrland Romanian Riviera, Romania's Black Sea Coast Slovenian Riviera, Slovenia's Adriatic Sea Coast Spanish Riviera, Costa del Sol, Costa Brava, Costa Blanca Sussex Riviera, Worthing, West Sussex Scandinavian Riviera, Landskrona, southwest Sweden Turkish Riviera, also known as the Turquoise Coast

Road Rash is the name of a motorcycle-racing video game series by Electronic Arts in which the player participates in violent, illegal street races. The series started on the Mega Drive and made its way to various other systems over the years. The game's title is based on the slang term for the severe friction burns that can occur in a motorcycle fall where skin comes into contact with the ground at high speed. Six different games were released from 1991 to 1999, and an alternate version of one game was developed for the Game Boy Advance. The Mega Drive trilogy wound up in EA Replay.