录像带或录影带（英语：videotape），是磁带的一种，主要用来录制、播放活动影像及音乐等。 一般以录放影机来录制和播放。 它是一种顺序式的线性（linear）影像保存方式。

录像带的保养，最怕潮湿、沙砾及尘埃等，还有「粘带」走音之烦恼。

到1990年代，因数字式的保存技术（如VCD和DVD）的发展，录像带不再是主流的影像录制媒介，但仍然被一般家庭作电视录像使用。直至2000年代初开始出现DVD录像机后才开始式微。

Videotape is magnetic tape used for storing motion images and usually sound, as opposed to film or random-access digital media. Videotapes are also used for storing scientific or medical data, such as the data produced by an electrocardiogram. In most cases, a helical-scan video head rotates against the moving tape to record the data in two dimensions, because video signals have a very high bandwidth, and static heads would require extremely high tape speeds. Videotape is used in both video tape recorders (VTRs) or, more commonly and more recently, videocassette recorders (VCRs) and camcorders. Tape is a linear method of storing information, and since nearly all video recordings made nowadays are recorded to random-access media such as a hard disk or flash storage, videotape is expected to gradually lose importance as nonlinear/random-access methods of storing digital video data become more common.