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Skipper

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Skipper or skippers may refer to:

Rank

Sports

  • Another name for a team's manager (baseball), captain (association football), or captain (cricket)
  • One who skips using a skipping rope
  • Houston Skippers, a minor league ice hockey team based in Houston, Texas, that played in the 1946 season
  • Skipper (cannon), the game cannon used by the Virginia Tech Hokies football team

People

  • Skipper (surname)
  • Ricardo Skippers (born 1986), South African footballer
  • Rudolf Scheepers Skipper Badenhorst (born 1978), South African rugby union player
  • Hargrove Skipper Bowles (1919–1986), American politician and businessman
  • Klemen Skipper Clement (c. 1484–1536), Danish merchant, captain, privateer and leader of a peasant rebellion
  • Francis Gidney (1890–1928), an early leader of the Scouting movement in the United Kingdom
  • Thomas Pinckney "Skipper" Heard (1898–1980), longtime athletics director of Louisiana State University
  • Lewis Skipper Mullins (born c. 1945), American Taekwondo 10th degree black belt
  • Clarence Skipper Roberts (1888–1963), American Major League Baseball catcher
  • Bernard Skipper Wise, American singer, songwriter, musician and entrepreneur

Places

Arts and entertainment

  • The Skipper, a character from the television series Gilligan's Island
  • Skipper (Barbie), a doll, Barbie's younger sister
  • Skipper (Madagascar), a character in Madagascar and The Penguins of Madagascar
  • Kill Cruise (German title: Der Skipper), a 1990 film starring Jürgen Prochnow, Patsy Kensit and Elizabeth Hurley
  • Skippers (TV programme), an Irish documentary series
  • Skipper Riley, a character in the movie Planes

Animals

Aviation

Other uses

  • AGM-123 Skipper II, a short-range laser-guided missile
  • AMT Skipper, a semi-automatic pistol
  • USS Skipper (AMc-104), a U.S. Navy minesweeper
  • Skippers Seafood & Chowder House, a chain of independently owned and operated restaurants
  • Skipper (computer software), a visualization tool and code generator for PHP ORM frameworks

See also

  • Skip (disambiguation)
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