Grit, Grits, or Gritty may refer to:

Food

* Grit (grain), bran, chaff, mill-dust or coarse oatmeal * Grits, a corn-based food common in the Southern United States

Minerals

* Grit, winter pavement-treatment minerals deployed in grit bins * Grit, or gastrolith, swallowed abrasive substances with roles in digestion *

Gritstone Gritstone or grit is a hard, coarse-grained, siliceous sandstone. This term is especially applied to such sandstones that are quarried for building material. British gritstone was used for millstones to mill flour, to grind wood into pulp for pa ...

, category of sedimentary rock * Shell grit, dietary calcium source in birds

Abrasive technologies

* Grit, one of the byproducts of grinding, an abrasive machining process *

Grit removal Sewage treatment (or domestic wastewater treatment, municipal wastewater treatment) is a type of wastewater treatment which aims to remove contaminants from sewage to produce an effluent that is suitable for discharge to the surrounding envi ...

, the removal of grit, the coarse abrasive material in untreated sewage * Grit size table, fineness/coarseness classification of sandpaper grit, and compares the CAMI and "P" designations with the average grit size in micrometres (µm)

Art and entertainment

* ''Grit'' (film), a 1924 American silent film starring Clara Bow * ''Grit'' (newspaper), a magazine, formerly a weekly newspaper *

Grit (Transformers) The is a line of mecha toys produced by Japanese company Takara (now known as Takara Tomy) and American toy company Hasbro. Initially a line of transforming mecha toys rebranded from Takara's ''Diaclone'' and ''Micro Change'' toy lines, it spawne ...

, a ''Micromasters'' Decepticon - Constructor Squad character * ''Grit'' (TV network), an American digital multicast television network * ''Grit'' (Martyn Bennett album), a 2003 album by Martyn Bennett * ''Grit'' (Madrugada album), a 2002 album by Norwegian band Madrugada * GRITS, a hip hop duo from the United States

People with the name

Grit Boettcher Grit Boettcher (; born 10 August 1938) is a German actress. Early life In 1938, Boettcher was born in Berlin, Germany. Career Boettcher is an actress in various films on German TV and in stage productions. Boettcher is sometimes credited ...

(born 1938), German actress * Grit Breuer (born 1972), former German athlete *

Diederik Grit Diederik Christoph Grit (1949–2012) was a Dutch translator and translation scholar. Life Born in Groningen on 22 March 1949, Grit moved to Friesland in his early teens and was educated in the Drachtster Lyceum. He went on to study Dutch at the ...

(1949–2012), Dutch translator and translation scholar * Grit Haid (1900–1938), Austrian stage and film actress *

Grit Hammer Grit Hammer, née Haupt (born 4 June 1966 in Saalfeld, Bezirk Gera) is a retired German shot putter. She represented the sports club SC Motor Jena, and won the silver medal at the East German championships in 1987. She put the shot 20.72 metres ...

(born 1966), retired German shot putter *

Grit Hegesa Grit Hegesa (31 December 1891 – 17 January 1972) was a German dancer and silent film actress. She appeared in seventeen films, including Ewald André Dupont's ''Whitechapel''.Prawer p.141 She was born Caroline Margaretha Schmidt. Selected filmo ...

(1891–1972), German dancer and silent film actress * Grit Jurack (born 1977), former German handball player *

Grit Lehmann Grit Lehmann (born 1 August 1976) is a German former professional volleyball player. In March 2013, she announced her retirement after playing her last game for Swiss club VC Kanti Schaffhausen against Volero Zürich Volero Zürich is a Swi ...

(born 1976), professional female volleyball player * Grit Müller (born 1972), retired German swimmer * Grit Naumann (born 1966), retired German female volleyball player *

Grit Šadeiko Grit Šadeiko (born 29 July 1989) is an Estonian heptathlete. She won the heptathlon at the 2011 European Athletics U23 Championships. Personal life Šadeiko's younger sister Grete Grete or Grethe is a feminine given name, a derivate of Mar ...

(born 1989), Estonian heptathlete * Grit Slaby (born 1965), German swimmer

Places

* Grit, Texas, USA * Grit, Virginia, USA

Other uses

* Grit (personality trait), a positive non-cognitive trait * GRIT, the RICS (gene), a protein in humans * Grits, a former pet of US president Jimmy Carter *

Gritty (mascot) Gritty is the official mascot for the Philadelphia Flyers National Hockey League (NHL) team. He is a furry orange creature with googly eyes who wears Flyers gear. Gritty has been compared to the Phillie Phanatic, the mascot for the Philadelph ...

, NHL mascot of the Philadelphia Flyers since 2018 * Clear Grits, 19th-century political movement *

Liberal Party of Canada The Liberal Party of Canada (french: Parti libéral du Canada, region=CA) is a federal political party in Canada. The party espouses the principles of liberalism,McCall, Christina; Stephen Clarkson"Liberal Party". ''The Canadian Encyclopedia'' ...

, colloquially referred to as the Grits * GRITS, the new universal tolling system soon to be adopted in the Greek motorway system