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{{Short description|Annual parade in Pasadena, California, US}}
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[[File:Rose Parade 2017 (32465317371).jpg|thumb|The leading [[Float (parade)|float]] during the 2017 Rose Parade]]
The '''Rose Parade''', also known as the '''Tournament of Roses Parade''' (or simply the '''Tournament of Roses'''), is an annual [[parade]] held mostly along [[Colorado Boulevard]] in [[Pasadena, California]], United States, on [[New Year's Day]] (or on Monday, January 2 if New Year's Day falls on a Sunday).

Produced by the non-profit [[Pasadena Tournament of Roses Association]], the parade usually starts at 8:00&nbsp;a.m. [[Pacific Time Zone|Pacific Time]] ([[UTC−08:00|UTC–8]]), and includes flower-covered [[float (parade)|floats]], marching bands, and equestrian units. The parade is followed in the afternoon by the [[Rose Bowl Game|Rose Bowl]], one of the major [[bowl game]]s in [[college football]]. It has been uninterrupted except during [[World War II]] in 1942, 1943, and 1945, and in 2021 due to the [[COVID-19 pandemic]].<ref>[https://tournamentofroses.com/pasadena-tournament-of-roses-unable-to-host-2021-rose-parade-on-new-years-day/ Pasadena Tournament of Roses Unable to Host 2021 Rose Parade on New Year's Day], Pasadena Tournament of Roses, July 15. 2020</ref>

First held on January 1, 1890, the Rose Parade is watched by hundreds of thousands of spectators.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/readers/2009/01/rose-parade-big.html |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |title=Big crowd, but who's counting? |access-date=2009-01-15}}</ref><ref>2009 Tournament Times, a publication of Tournament of Roses Association</ref> The Rose Bowl college football game was added in 1902 to help fund the cost of staging the parade.<ref>{{cite news |first=Mary L. |last=Grady |url=http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/east_king/mir/news/103769139.html |title=Mercer Island High School Marching Band to march in 2012 Tournament of Roses Parade |newspaper=[[Mercer Island Reporter]] |date=September 24, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101004015246/http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/east_king/mir/news/103769139.html |archive-date=2010-10-04}}</ref> Since 2011, [[Honda]] has been a presenting sponsor of the Rose Parade.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tournamentofroses.com |title=The Pasadena Tournament of Roses |publisher=Pasadena Tournament of Roses |access-date=2011-12-25}}</ref> Accordingly, the company has the parade's first float, which like all floats, follows the parade's theme.