Grunt, grunts or grunting may refer to:
Sound and music
- Grunting (tennis), in tennis refers to the loud noise, sometimes described as "shrieking" or "screaming", made by some players during their strokes
- Death grunt, the death metal singing style
- Grunt Records, a vanity label founded in 1971 by Jefferson Airplane and distributed by RCA Records
- "The Grunt", a 1970 instrumental recording by The J.B.'s
Food and animals
- A jug of 32 ounces of liquid, half a growler (usually beer)
- A food preparation similar to a cobbler
- A family of fishes, also known as Haemulidae
- Grunt-fish, the only member of the fish family Rhamphocottidae
Technology
- Grunt (software), a JavaScript Task Runner
- Fobos-Grunt, a failed Russian mission to Phobos, one of the moons of Mars
Military
- An infantryman, in American military slang
- Grunt (G.I. Joe), a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe
Games
- Grunt (board wargame), a 1971 tactical wargame
- Gruntz, a 1999 puzzle/strategy game
Many games use the "simple soldier" meaning, to a point that the word is now common parlance within gaming communities for the easiest 'popcorn' enemies:
- A Warcraft, orcish warrior
- The simplest unit in the video game Z
- The smallest enemy in the video game Metal Arms: Glitch in the System
- A class in the multiplayer mode of the video game Conker: Live & Reloaded
- An enemy in the Half-Life universe
- The weakest monster in Quake
- Grunt (Halo), an alien in the game Halo
- Grunt (Mass Effect), Krogan squadmate in Mass Effect 2
- A low-ranking member of a crime syndicate in the Pokémon games
Fiction
- Grunts!, a 1992 fantasy novel by Mary Gentle
- Grunt!, a 1983 Italian film featured in the movie Troll 2
- The Brothers Grunt, an MTV animated series
Other uses
- Michał Grunt (born 1993), Polish professional footballer
- Grunt (horse)
See also
- Grund (disambiguation)
- Grundt, a surname
- Grunty (disambiguation)