Gridiron may refer to:
Sports and games
* Gridiron, a term for the field marked with yard-lines on which
American
American(s) may refer to:
* American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America"
** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America
** American ancestry, pe ...
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Canadian codes of football are played
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, umbrella term used to refer to the several codes of football which use a gridiron field
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Gridiron (card game)
Gridiron: Fantasy Football was a gridiron football, football-themed collectible card game first published in August 1995 by Upper Deck.
Game overview
Gridiron simulates a American football, football game that takes place in a dystopian "near- ...
, a football themed collectible card game
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GridIron Master
''GridIron Master'' is a wooden board game invented by Brett Proud, Craig Proud, Paul Morin and Jordan Sampson. It was first published by Canadian company ''PHI Sports Games'' in 2007. It combines the strategic elements of gridiron football (Ame ...
, a board game
Organizations
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Gridiron Secret Society
Gridiron Secret Society, founded in 1908, is a secret society at the University of Georgia. Gridiron has been called "the highest honor a male student may receive on the University of Georgia campus.". It has also been recognized as one of the "T ...
, a secret society at the University of Georgia
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Gridiron Club, a journalistic organization in Washington, DC, USA
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The Gridiron Club (Oxford University)
The Gridiron Club, popularly called The Grid, is a club open to male and female students at the University of Oxford. The name of any prospective member is entered into 'The Book'. Current members may subsequently sign in approval of the proposed. ...
, an undergraduate club founded in 1884
Arts and entertainment
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''Gridiron'' (novel), a 1995 science fiction novel about a semi-intelligent building infected by a virus
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Captain Grid-Iron
This is an alphabetical list of '' G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero'' characters who are members of the G.I. Joe Team. For Cobra characters, see ''List of Cobra characters''.
Ace
Agent Faces
Agent Faces is the G.I. Joe Team's infiltrator. H ...
, a G.I. Joe character
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Grid Iron Theatre Company
Grid Iron Theatre Company is a Scottish theatre company, one of the world's leading specialists in site-specific theatre although they also produce for the stage.
Over the 27 years the company has won 31 awards and another 20 nominations across ...
, Scottish theatre company
Other uses
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Gridiron (cooking)
A gridiron is a metal grate with parallel bars typically used for grilling foods. Some designs involve two such grates hinged to fold together, securely holding food while grilling over an open flame.
Development
Early examples of the gridiron ...
, a type of cooking grill
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Gridiron, Sonora
Gridiron was a steamboat Landing (water transport), landing and woodyard on the lower Colorado River in Sonora state of northwestern Mexico,.
It supplied fuel wood to heat the steam boilers of the steamboats of the Colorado River, shipping steamb ...
, a steamboat landing in Mexico
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Gridiron plan
In urban planning, the grid plan, grid street plan, or gridiron plan is a type of city plan in which streets run at right angles to each other, forming a grid.
Two inherent characteristics of the grid plan, frequent intersections and orthogo ...
, in urban planning
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Gridiron deck, in performance theatres, a loft floor made from girders etc. with gaps for the ropes used to lift backdrops and scenery.
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Gridiron pendulum
The gridiron pendulum was a temperature-compensated clock pendulum invented by British clockmaker John Harrison around 1726 and later modified by John Ellicott. It was used in precision clocks. In ordinary clock pendulums, the pendulum rod expan ...
, a part of a pendulum clock
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Operation Flight Gridiron
Naval Base Perth was a United States Navy base near Perth, Western Australia during World War II. Perth was selected as the site for a U.S. Navy base as it was beyond the range of Japanese long-range bombers. The Bombing of Darwin on 19 February ...
during
World War II
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