History Main / KiteRiding

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* ''VideoGame/SamuraiWarriors'': Nene, being a HighlyVisibleNinja, attempts to spy on an enemy castle by flying on a huge-ass, bright yellow kite (to go with her equally bright yellow outfit, naturally) in the dead of night. To no-one's surprise but hers, the attempt fails and she would have face-planted several hundred feet down if not for Hanzo.

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* [[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadrunner Wile E. Coyote]] once tried to fly by running off a cliff while holding a kite. [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption It went as well as you'd expect.]]
* In the ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' episode, "The Sponge Who Could Fly", [=SpongeBob=] wants to learn how to fly just like the Jellyfish. One of his attempts is to tie himself to a kite pulled by Patrick riding a bicycle. At first, this attempt works, but eventually, the kite breaks and makes [=SpongeBob=] the laughingstock of Bikini Bottom as a result.

* ''WesternAnimation/GIJoe'' occasionally showed the Joes and Cobras using hang gliders, though Cobra quickly got an upgrade with the rigid, jet-powered C.L.A.W. gliders.

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* Essentially, this is just hang-gliding.

* In ''WesternAnimation/GIJoe'', Cobras use hang gliders as vehicles at times.

* Essentially, this is just hang-gliding.

The semi-nomadic Yellow-Red Chanari of ''TabletopGame/RocketAge'''s Mars use one man gliders, which give their highland fortresses the impression of being nests for great flying animals.

* In Creator/DavidBrin's ''The Practice Effect'', someone carrying a large umbrella was caught in a powerful storm, which gave him the brainstorm for a kite. For a long time, tethered kites with soldiers riding them were used for patrol and defense, then another genius had a lucky/unlucky break when his tether broke and he invented a hang-glider, which became ''the'' word in advanced warfare, until Wizard Nuel came from a distant land...

* ''Literature/RowanOfRin'': The Forerunners of Travellers use large silken kites to fly ahead of the rest of the tribe and warn of potential dangers, the cover depicts them being shaped like gliders.

* In the [[MiscellaneousDisneyShorts Disney short]] ''Ben and Me'', Amos Mouse rides in a pocket on Benjamin Franklin's kite on the fateful day that Ben discovers electricity.

* In ''ToyStory3'', Woody gets out of Sunnyside Daycare by riding a kite.

* In ''Series/ShurikenSentaiNinninger'', the team can use their [[ElementalPowers Five Elements Shuriken]]s' [[GreenThumb Wood]] technique to generate a kite for this very purpose; as their name suggests, this is an example of the ninja application of this trope.

* [[ActionGirl Yae]] rides one in a {{cutscene}} of ''VideoGame/LegendOfTheMysticalNinja''.
** Also in ''Legend of the Mystical Ninja'', the boss fight against Sasuke begins with him deploying a group of ninjas from a giant kite, then he brings the kite closer as the battlefield for the final phase.

* ''[[VideoGame/GanbareGoemon The Legend of the Mystical Ninja]]'' has a goofy cutscene with Dr. Yang (Ebisumaru) flying on a kite, as well as a ninja BossBattle involving a larger kite.

* The Famous Studios cartoon "Suddenly It's Spring" from 1944 has Raggedy Ann dangle from a kite's tail in order to speak with Mister Sun.
* An aggressive bulldog climbs up the tether to an airborne kite in Tex Avery's cartoon "Ventriloquist Cat" from 1950. The trickster cat throws his voice at the kite to make the bulldog think he's hiding there.