Grip(s) or The Grip may refer to:

Common uses

Grip (job) In the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, grips are camera support equipment technicians in the filmmaking and video production industries. They constitute their own department on a film set and are directed by a key grip. Grips have tw ...

, a job in the film industry *

Grip strength Grip strength is the force applied by the hand to pull on or suspend from objects and is a specific part of hand strength. Optimum-sized objects permit the hand to wrap around a cylindrical shape with a diameter from one to three inches. Stair rai ...

, a measure of hand strength

Music

Grip (percussion) In percussion, grip refers to the manner in which the player holds the percussion mallet or mallets, whether drum sticks or other mallets. For some instruments, such as triangle (musical instrument), triangles and large gongs, only one mallet or ...

, a method for holding a drum stick or mallet * '' The Grip'', a 1977 album by Arthur Blythe * ''Grip'', a 1996 album by

Husking Bee Husking Bee are a Japanese powerpop/punk band formed in 1994. According to Oricon, HUSKING BEE’s member were Isobe Masafumi (on Vocals), Kudo "Tekkin" Tetsuya(on Bass) and Hiramoto Leona (on Drums). They debuted in 1995 by "NOT SUPERSTITIOUS III ...

* ''The Grip'', a 2011 EP by

Cerebral Ballzy Cerebral Ballzy is an American punk rock band from Brooklyn, New York, United States. The band was formed in 2008 and released their debut, self-titled, album on 26 July 2011. The album was released in full as an online preview on the ''Revolv ...

* "Grip" (song), by Seeb and Bastille, 208 * "

(Get A) Grip (On Yourself) "Grip", or "(Get A) Grip (On Yourself)", is a single by the Stranglers from the album ''Rattus Norvegicus''. The Stranglers' first single, it reached number 44 in the UK Singles Chart. The song was written by Hugh Cornwell, and featured steel mill ...

", a 1977 song by the Stranglers * "Grip!", a 2003 song by Every Little Thing from ''

Many Pieces Many Pieces is the fifth album of the Japanese pop rock group Every Little Thing (ELT), released on March 19, 2003. Many Pieces showed a drastic change in ELT's music, because of the departure of synthesizers and the change in Kaori's vocals. Tra ...

Organizations

* Grip Ltd., a Toronto, Canada, design firm, originally founded to publish ''Grip'' magazine ** ''Grip'' (magazine), an 1873–1894 satirical magazine * Grip Digital, a Czech video game developer and publisher *

German Research Institute for Public Administration The German Research Institute for Public Administration (''GRIP'', German: ''Deutsches Forschungsinstitut für öffentliche Verwaltung, FÖV'') is a non-university research institute for public administration located in Speyer, Rhineland Palatinat ...

, Speyer, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany *

National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies The , or GRIPS, is an elite, highly selective research graduate school located in Minato, Tokyo. Funded by the Japanese Government, it has the status of national university. It is also one of Asia's leading think tanks of policy scholars and socia ...

, Minato, Tokyo, Japan

People

* Grip (rapper) (born 1989), rapper *

Jouko Grip Jouko Grip (born January 10, 1949, in Pälkäne) is a Paralympic athlete who has won medals in both the Summer and Winter Games. Most of his medals were in Nordic skiing. He is Finnish and has polio in his left hand. In 2006 he was inducted into th ...

(born 1949), Finnish Paralympic athlete * Håvard Fjær Grip, Norwegian cybernetics engineer

Places

Grip, Norway Grip () is an archipelago and deserted fishing village in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located about northwest of the town of Kristiansund in the Norwegian Sea. The Grip Lighthouse, one of the tallest lighthouses in Norway, is lo ...

, an archipelago and deserted fishing village in Møre og Romsdal county **

Grip (municipality) Grip () is a former municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. With a land area of only and a population of 104, Grip was the smallest municipality in Norway during its existence from 1897 until it merged with Kristiansund in 1964. Grip mu ...

, an 1897–1964 municipality that included the archipelago ** Grip Lighthouse *

Grips-Theater The Grips-Theatre in Berlin (official name: GRIPS Theater) is a well-known and well-respected emancipatory children's and youth theatre, located at Altonaer Straße at Hansaplatz in the Hansaviertel in Berlin's Mitte district. It is “the first t ...

, a youth theater in Berlin, Germany

Science and technology

Grip (software) Grip is a free Compact Disc player and CD ripper. The software is rather similar to Audiograbber on Windows - without sound card capture feature; it is fast, lightweight, and easy to compile. Grip uses a selection of encoders, including cdpa ...

, a CD-ripping software program * Grip, a part of a

scrollbar A scrollbar is an interaction technique or widget in which continuous text, pictures, or any other content can be scrolled in a predetermined direction (up, down, left, or right) on a computer display, window, or viewport so that all of the con ...

Battery grip A battery grip is an accessory for an SLR/DSLR (and occasionally other cameras), which allows the camera to hold multiple batteries to extend the battery life of the camera, and adds a vertical grip with an extra shutter release (and other contro ...

, a camera accessory *

Cable grip A cable grip is a device for propelling a vehicle by attaching to a wire rope (called a haul rope) running at a (relatively) constant speed. The vehicle may be suspended from the cable, as in the case of aerial lifts such as a gondola lift (''té ...

, a component of cable car systems *

Pistol grip On a firearm or other tools, a pistol grip is a distinctly protruded handle underneath the main mechanism, to be held by the user's hand at a more vertical (and thus more ergonomic) angle, similar to the how one would hold a conventional pist ...

, the handle of a firearm, or a similar handle on a tool *

Glutamate receptor-interacting protein Glutamate receptor-interacting protein (GRIP) refers to either a family of proteins that bind to the glutamate receptor or specifically to the GRIP1 protein within this family. Proteins in the glutamate receptor-interacting protein (GRIP) family ha ...

Greenland ice core project The Greenland Ice Core Project (GRIP) was a research project organised through the European Science Foundation (ESF). The project ran from 1989 to 1995, with drilling seasons from 1990 to 1992. In 1988, the project was accepted as an ESF-associa ...

Sports

Grip (auto racing) The following is a glossary of terminology used in motorsport, along with explanations of their meanings. 0–9 ;1–2 finish: When two vehicles from the same team finish first and second in a race. Can be extended to 1–2–3 or 1–2–3– ...

, the cornering performance of a race car *

Grip (badminton) In badminton, a grip is a way of holding the racket in order to hit shots during a match. The most commonly used grip is the orthodox forehand grip. Most players change grips during a rally depending on whether it is a forehand or backhand shot. A ...

, how a badminton racket is held *

Grip (cricket bowling) One of the key factors in cricket bowling is the grip. Variation in grip has a major influence on the outcome of a delivery. Below is the grip for an inswing delivery. To produce the grip for an outswinging delivery, you simply have place you ...

, how a cricket ball is held by a bowler *

Grip (gymnastics) Grips are devices that are worn on the hands of artistic gymnasts when performing on various apparatus. They are worn by female gymnasts on the uneven bars, and by male gymnasts on the high bar and still rings; it is rare to wear them on the para ...

, a device worn on the hands of gymnasts *

Grip (sport fencing) In fencing, the grip is the part of the weapon which is gripped by the fencer's hand. There are two types of grips commonly used today in competitive foil and épée: French, which is a straight grip with a pommel at the end of it, and the ortho ...

, the hilt of a fencing weapon *

Grip (sword) The hilt (rarely called a haft or shaft) of a knife, dagger, sword, or bayonet is its handle, consisting of a guard, grip and pommel. The guard may contain a crossguard or quillons. A tassel or sword knot may be attached to the guard or pomme ...

, part of the hilt of a blade weapon *

Grip (tennis) In tennis, a grip is a way of holding the racquet in order to hit shots during a match. The three most commonly used conventional grips are: the Continental (or "Chopper"), the Eastern and the Semi-Western. Most players change grips during a match ...

, how a tennis racket is held

Other uses

* '' Grip: Combat Racing'', a racing video game * "Grip", a raven character in Charles Dickens' ''

Barnaby Rudge ''Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty'' (commonly known as ''Barnaby Rudge'') is a historical novel by British novelist Charles Dickens. ''Barnaby Rudge'' was one of two novels (the other was ''The Old Curiosity Shop'') that Dickens publ ...

'' * ''The Grip'' (TV series), a 1994–1998 Irish children's sports programme *

Coordinated Regional Incident Management (Netherlands) The Coordinated Regional Incident-Management Procedure or Gecoördineerde Regionale Incidentbestrijdings Procedure (GRIP) is a nationwide emergency management procedure in the Netherlands. The procedure is used by all emergency services, different ...

, an emergency management procedure in the Netherlands *

Governance for Railway Investment Projects Network Rail Limited is the owner (via its subsidiary Network Rail Infrastructure Limited, which was known as Railtrack plc before 2002) and infrastructure manager of most of the railway network in Great Britain. Network Rail is an "arm's leng ...

, a system used by Network Rail to manage railway infrastructure projects