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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 ...
and Canadian codes of football are played **
Gridiron football Gridiron football,"Gridiron football"
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, umbrella term used to refer to the several codes of football which use a gridiron field * Gridiron (card game), a football themed collectible card game *
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

* Gridiron Secret Society, a secret society at the University of Georgia * Gridiron Club, a journalistic organization in Washington, DC, USA * The Gridiron Club (Oxford University), an undergraduate club founded in 1884


Arts and entertainment

* ''Gridiron'' (novel), a 1995 science fiction novel about a semi-intelligent building infected by a virus *
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 * Grid Iron Theatre Company, Scottish theatre company


Other uses

* Gridiron (cooking), a type of cooking grill * Gridiron, Sonora, a steamboat landing in Mexico *
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 * Gridiron deck, in performance theatres, a loft floor made from girders etc. with gaps for the ropes used to lift backdrops and scenery. *
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 ex ...
, a part of a pendulum clock *
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 {{disambiguation