A rival is a competing person, company, or team.

Rival or rivals may also refer to

Literature, music, and media

• "Rival" (Pearl Jam song), song on Pearl Jam's 2000's album Binaural
• "Rival" (song), the second opening theme song of the Pocket Monsters series
• "Rivals" (DS9 episode), the eleventh episode of the second season of the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
• "The Rivals" (The O.C. episode), the 17th episode of the FOX television series, The O.C.
• The Rival, comic book villain, enemy of The Flash
• The Rivals, play by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
• Rivals (film), a 1925 film starring Oliver Hardy

Other uses

• Rivals in sports; see Sports rivalry
• Rivals.com, a network of United States-based sports Web sites with a particular emphasis on college sports and a subordinate emphasis on recruiting
• College rivalry
• Rivalry (economics)
• Monocular rivalry and Binocular rivalry in visual perception
• Sibling rivalry