title: Alternative
text: # Alternative
  
  Alternative or alternate may refer to:
  
  ## Arts, entertainment and media
  
  * Alternative (Kamen Rider), a character in the Japanese TV series Kamen Rider Ryuki
  * AlterNative, academic journal
  * The Alternative (film), a 1978 Australian television film
  * The Alternative, a radio show hosted by Tony Evans
  * 120 Minutes (2004 TV program), an alternative rock music video program formerly known as The Alternative
  * The American Spectator, an American magazine formerly known as The Alternative: An American Spectator
  
  ### Music
  
  * Alternative (album), a B-sides album by Pet Shop Boys
  * The Alternative (album), an album by IAMX
  * "Altern-ate", a song by H-el-ical//, 2020
  * Alternative rock, also known as "alternative music" or simply "alternative"
  
  ## Sports
  
  * Alternate (sports), a replacement or backup for a regular or starting team player
  
  ## Mathematics and science
  
  * Alternativity, a weaker property than associativity
  * Alternate leaves, a classification in botanical phyllotaxis
  
  ## Politics
  
  * Alternative (Mauritania), political party
  * The Alternative (Denmark), a green political party in Denmark
  * The Alternative (France), electoral coalition
  * The Alternative (Palestine), a former electoral alliance of several socialist Palestinian groups
  * Alternativa (Kosovo political party), a liberal political party in Kosovo
  * Alternativa (Italian political party), a populist political party in Italy
  * Alternativa (North Macedonian political party), an Albanian political party in North Macedonia
  