齐柏林飞船（Zeppelin）是一种或一系列硬式飞船（Rigid airship）的总称，是著名的德国飞船设计家斐迪南·冯·齐柏林（Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin）伯爵在20世纪初期以大卫·舒瓦兹（David Schwarz）所设计的飞船为蓝本，进一步发展而来。由于这系列飞船的成功，「齐柏林飞船」甚至成为当代称呼此类飞船时所用的代名词。

在当时，巨型飞船主要的用途涵盖了民用与军事两种领域。民用方面，德意志飞船运输公司（Deutsche Luftschiffahrts-AG）可以被视为是现代商业航空界的开山祖师，在第一次世界大战爆发前曾非常活跃过。大战爆发后，各**事将领们注意到飞船高高在上的运用性，因此改将其投入到战场上，担任空中轰炸或侦察斥候的任务。

A Zeppelin was a type of rigid airship named after the German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin who pioneered rigid airship development at the beginning of the 20th century. Zeppelin's ideas were first formulated in 1874 and developed in detail in 1893. They were patented in Germany in 1895 and in the United States in 1899. After the outstanding success of the Zeppelin design, the word zeppelin came to be commonly used to refer to all rigid airships. Zeppelins were first flown commercially in 1910 by Deutsche Luftschiffahrts-AG (DELAG), the world's first airline in revenue service. By mid-1914, DELAG had carried over 10,000 fare-paying passengers on over 1,500 flights. During World War I the German military made extensive use of Zeppelins as bombers and scouts, killing over 500 people in bombing raids in Britain.