Grasshopper (disambiguation)
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A grasshopper is a common type of herbivorous insect.
Grasshopper or grasshoppers may also refer to:
Places in the United States
- Grasshopper, Arizona, a populated place
- Grasshopper Township, Atchison County, Kansas
- Grasshopper Glacier (Montana)
- Grasshopper Glacier (Wyoming)
- Grasshopper River, original name of the Delaware River
Sports
- Grasshopper Club Zürich, an association football club from Zürich, Switzerland
- Grasshopper Club Zürich (women), the women's team of Grasshopper Club Zürich
- Grasshoppers F.C., a defunct association football club from Bonnybridge, Scotland
- Birmingham Grasshoppers, a defunct soccer team from Birmingham, Alabama, United States
- Greensboro Grasshoppers, a minor league baseball team in Greensboro, 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
- The Grasshopper (horse) (foaled c. 1945), which competed in the sport of eventing
Arts and entertainment
Music
- Grasshopper (band), a Cantopop group from Hong Kong
- Grasshopper (musician) (born 1967), American musician with the band Mercury Rev
- Grasshopper (album), the seventh album by J. J. Cale
- Grasshopper (EP), by British band Ride
- "The Grasshoppers" (song), by the South Korean group Sunny Hill
Films
- The Grasshopper (1955 film), a Soviet drama film
- The Grasshopper (1970 film), a drama starring Jacqueline Bisset and Jim Brown
- Grasshopper (film), a 2015 Japanese thriller film starring Toma Ikuta, Tadanobu Asano and Ryosuke Yamada
- Grasshoppers (Cavallette), a 1990 short animated film
Other
- Grasshopper (sculpture), a 1988 sculpture by Wayne Chabre, located in Salem, Oregon, United States
- Grasshopper chess, a chess variant
- Grasshopper (chess piece), a chess piece used in grasshopper chess
- Grasshopper (comics), a Marvel Comics superhero
- Grasshopper (novel), by Ruth Rendell under the pen name Barbara Vine
- Grasshopper, nickname of fictional character Kwai Chang Caine in the television series Kung Fu
- "The Grasshopper" (short story), by Anton Chekhov (1892)
In the military
- HMS Grasshopper, name of several boats, stations and ships of the Royal Navy
- Slingsby Grasshopper, a British Royal Air Force training glider
- Grasshopper, several American military aircraft, including:
- Taylorcraft L-2
- Aeronca L-3
- Piper L-4, a military version of the Piper J-3 Cub
- Stinson L-13
- 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
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
- Grasshopper (rocket), a reusable rocket prototype developed by private company SpaceX
Technology
- Grasshopper escapement, a mechanical component of a clock
- Grasshopper (software), a framework to allow the use of VisualBasic and C# on a Java Application Server
- Grasshopper 3D, a visual programming language that runs within the Rhinoceros 3D CAD application
- Grasshopper beam engine, a beam engine where the beam is pivoted at one end, rather than in the centre
Companies
- "The Grasshopper", another name for Martins Bank, a private bank in London (1730–1760)
- Grasshopper Manufacture, a video game company
- The Grasshopper Company, an American manufacturer of lawn mowers and related implements
Drinks
- Grasshopper (cocktail), an alcoholic beverage
- Grasshöpper Wheat Ale, a beer brand produced by Big Rock Brewery
Other uses
- Operation Grasshopper, a project to look for natural resources in Suriname from the air
- Grasshopper Scouts, a Hong Kong scouting organization for 6- to 8-year-old children
See also
- Jim Whitney (1857–1891), baseball pitcher nicknamed "Grasshopper Jim"
- Heuschrecke 10 (English: Grasshopper 10), a German World War II prototype self-propelled gun
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