Grasshopper (disambiguation)

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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

• Grasshopper (cocktail)
• Grasshöpper Wheat Ale, produced by Big Rock Brewery

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

• Grasshopper (character), several characters in Marvel Comics
• Grasshopper (novel), by Barbara Vine (Ruth Rendell)
• "The Grasshopper" (short story), 1892, by Anton Chekhov

Military

• HMS Grasshopper, eight vessels and one shore station of the Royal Navy
• 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
• "Grasshopper", a song from the album Grasshopper by J. J. Cale
• "Grasshopper", a song from the album Going Blank Again by Ride

Places

• Grasshopper, Arizona, a populated place
• Grasshopper Township, Atchison County, Kansas
• Delaware River (Kansas), or Grasshopper River
• Grasshopper Glacier (Montana)
• Grasshopper Glacier (Wyoming)
• Grasshopper Peak, a mountain in Washington state

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), a fairy chess piece
• Grasshopper (mobile app), an app developed by Google that teaches coding
• 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, a nickname for Kwai Chang Caine, protagonist of 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
• Jim Whitney (1857–1891), baseball pitcher nicknamed "Grasshopper Jim"