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Grasshopper (disambiguation)

A grasshopper is a common type of herbivorous insect.

Grasshopper or grasshoppers may also refer to:

Companies

  • Martins Bank, or the Grasshopper (1730–1760), a private bank in London
  • Grasshopper Manufacture, a video game company
  • The Grasshopper Company, an American manufacturer of lawn mowers and related implements

Drinks

Films

  • The Grasshopper (1955 film), a Soviet drama
  • The Grasshopper (1970 film), a drama starring Jacqueline Bisset and Jim Brown
  • Grasshoppers (Cavallette), a 1990 short animated film
  • Grasshopper (film), a 2015 Japanese thriller starring Toma Ikuta, Tadanobu Asano and Ryosuke Yamada

Literature

Military

  • HMS Grasshopper
  • Grasshopper (robot weather station), developed by the US Air Force and Navy in the 1950s and deployed by parachute
  • Grasshopper cannon, a British infantry weapon designed in the 18th century
  • Slingsby Grasshopper, a British Royal Air Force training glider
  • Taylorcraft L-2 or Grasshopper, an American military aircraft
  • Aeronca L-3 or Grasshopper, an American military aircraft
  • Piper L-4 or Grasshopper, a military version of the Piper J-3 Cub
  • Stinson L-13 or Grasshopper, an American military aircraft

Music

  • Grasshopper (band), a Cantopop group from Hong Kong
  • Grasshopper (musician) (born 1967), American, with the band Mercury Rev
  • Grasshopper (album), by J. J. Cale
  • Grasshopper (EP), by British band Ride
  • "The Grasshoppers" (song), by the South Korean group Sunny Hill

Places

Sports

  • The Grasshopper (horse) (foaled c. 1945), a competitor in the sport of eventing
  • Grasshopper Club Zürich, a Swiss association football club
    • Grasshopper Club Zürich (women), the women's team
  • Grasshoppers F.C., a defunct association football club from Bonnybridge, Scotland
  • Birmingham Grasshoppers, a defunct soccer team from Alabama, United States
  • Greensboro Grasshoppers, a minor league baseball team in North Carolina, United States
  • Preston Grasshoppers R.F.C., a rugby union team from Preston, England
  • Grasshopper Women's Masters, a women's World Curling Tour event

Vehicles

  • Ikarus Grasshopper, a German hang glider design
  • Sopwith Grasshopper, a British two-seat touring biplane
  • XO-63 Grasshopper and L6A Grasshopper, variants of the Interstate Cadet light aircraft
  • Atlantic (locomotive), nicknamed Grasshopper
  • SpaceX Grasshopper, a Falcon 9 prototype

Other uses

  • Grasshopper (chess piece), used in grasshopper chess
  • Grasshopper (sculpture), 1988, by Wayne Chabre in Salem, Oregon, United States
  • Grasshopper (software), a framework to allow the use of Visual Basic and C# on a Java Application Server
  • Operation Grasshopper, a project to look for natural resources in Suriname from the air
  • Grasshopper beam engine, a variant where the beam is pivoted at one end, rather than in the centre
  • Grasshopper escapement, a mechanical component of a clock
  • Grasshopper 3D, a visual programming language that runs within the Rhinoceros 3D CAD application
  • Grasshopper Scouts, a Hong Kong scouting organization for 6- to 8-year-old children
  • Grasshopper or Kwai Chang Caine, a character in the TV series Kung Fu

See also

  • Grasshopper chess, a chess variant
  • Heuschrecke 10 (English: Grasshopper 10), a German World War II prototype self-propelled gun
  • HMS Grasshopper, any of several ships
  • Jim Whitney (1857–1891), baseball pitcher nicknamed "Grasshopper Jim"
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