Kicker or The Kicker may refer to:

Sports

Placekicker Placekicker, or simply kicker (PK or K), is the player in gridiron football who is responsible for the kicking duties of field goals and extra points. In many cases, the placekicker also serves as the team's kickoff specialist or punter. Spe ...

, a position in American and Canadian football * ''Kicker'' (sports magazine), in Germany * Kicker, the German colloquial term for an

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

player * Kicker, the word used in Belgium, Finland, Germany, and Russia for

table football Table football, also known as foosball, table soccer, futbolito in Mexico, Taca Taca in Chile and Metegol in Argentina is a table-top game that is loosely based on association football. The aim of the game is to move the ball into the opponen ...

* Kicker, another name for

Kickball Kickball (also known as soccer baseball in most of Canada and football rounders in the United Kingdom) is a team sport and league game, similar to baseball. As in baseball, one team tries to score by having its players return a ball from home ...

Flea Kicker In college football, the Flea Kicker was a notable play executed by the Nebraska Cornhuskers against the Missouri Tigers on November 8, 1997 that sent the game into overtime and resulted in a win for the Cornhuskers who went on to share the NCAA D ...

, a play executed by the Nebraska Cornhuskers football team *

Nicolás Kicker Nicolás Kicker (, born 16 August 1992 in Merlo) is an Argentine tennis player. He plays mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour. Kicker achieved his highest career singles ranking of 78 in June 2017. He has won 3 singles titles, and 1 doubles title o ...

(born 1992), Argentine tennis player *

Kicker (dominoes) The following is a glossary of terms used in dominoes. Besides the terms listed here, there are numerous regional or local slang terms. Terms in this glossary should not be game-specific, i.e. specific to one particular version of dominoes, but ap ...

, a domino tile that increases the count by one spot * Kicker, the upward-sloping part of a jump in a ski/snowboard

terrain park A terrain park or snow park is an outdoor recreation area containing terrain that allows skiers, snowboarders and snowbikers to perform tricks. Terrain parks have their roots in skateparks and many of the features are common to both. From their ...

Association football

BSC Kickers 1900 Berlin BSC Kickers 1900 is a German football club from the Schöneberg district of south central Berlin. The roots of the club are in the establishment of '' Berliner Thor- und Fußball Club Elf'' on 1 November 1900. This was followed by a series of m ...

from Berlin, Germany *

Kickers Emden BSV Kickers Emden is a Football in Germany, German association football club, located in Emden, Lower Saxony. History The club first began playing in 1928 as a section of the gymnastics club Emder Turnverein, which was founded in 1861. An inde ...

from Emden, Lower Saxony, Germany *

Kickers Frankfurt Eintracht Frankfurt e.V. () is a professional sports club based in Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany. It is best known for its football club, which was founded on 8 March 1899. The team is currently playing in the Bundesliga, the top tier of the Germ ...

, one of the two teams who formed the actual Eintracht Frankfurt, from Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany *

Kickers Offenbach Offenbacher Kickers, also known as Kickers Offenbach, is a German association football club in Offenbach am Main, Hesse. The club was founded on 27 May 1901 in the Rheinischer Hof restaurant by footballers who had left established local clubs in ...

from Offenbach am Main, Hesse, Germany *

Kickers Würzburg Kickers is a youth brand created in 1970 in France that produces a wide range of footwear and clothing. Kickers was bought in 2007 by the Royer group. Kickers are primarily popular amongst British school children, with Kickers 'Lo' style shoes ...

from Würzburg, Bavaria, Germany *

Calgary Kickers The Calgary Strikers (formerly the Calgary Kickers) were a Canadian soccer team in Calgary, Alberta that competed in the Canadian Soccer League from 1987 to 1989. They were founded as the Calgary Kickers for the 1987 and 1988 seasons, winning the ...

from Calgary, Alberta, Canada *

California Kickers California Kickers were a soccer club based in Hollywood, California. They joined the Western Soccer Alliance in 1986. They initially played as Hollywood Kickers before changing their name for the following season. In 1990 the team name was changed ...

from Hollywood, California, United States *

Denver Kickers Denver Kickers are an American soccer club, founded in 1956. The club fields a number of teams at the adult and youth levels. The Kickers premier team plays in the United States Adult Soccer Association sanctioned Colorado Adult Soccer Associati ...

from Denver, Colorado, United States *

Los Angeles Kickers The Los Angeles Kickers were an amateur American soccer team established in 1951. The club won the National Challenge Cup, now known as the U.S. Open Cup, in 1958 and 1964. In 1951, Albert Ebert and Fritz Ermert founded the Los Angeles Kickers as ...

from Los Angeles, California, United States * SV Kickers Pforzheim from Pforzheim, Germany *

Potsdamer Kickers The Potsdamer Kickers are a German football club based in the north of Potsdam in Brandenburg. After the 2010–11 season and for the first time in their 17 years of existence, the Potsdamer Kickers were relegated; having started playing in th ...

from Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany *

Richmond Kickers Richmond Kickers is an American professional soccer club based in Richmond, Virginia. The Kickers compete as a member of USL League One (USL-1). The club was established in 1993, and began play that same year as a United States Interregional S ...

from Richmond, Virginia, United States * St. Petersburg Kickers from St. Petersburg, Florida, United States. *

Stuttgarter Kickers Stuttgarter Kickers is a German association football club that plays in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, founded on 21 September 1899 as FC Stuttgarter Cickers. History In its early years the club had a decent local squad that played in the Südk ...

from Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany *

Violet Kickers F.C. Violet Kickers F.C. is a club team in Jamaica Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean (after Cuba and Hispaniola). Ja ...

from Jamaica

Gambling

* A

kicker (poker) A kicker, also called a side card, is a card in a poker hand that does not itself take part in determining the rank of the hand, but that may be used to break ties between hands of the same rank. For example, the hand Q-Q-10-5-2 is ranked as a pai ...

or side card, a card in a poker hand that does not itself take part in determining the rank of the hand, but that may be used to break ties between hands of the same rank * "Kicker", an option in the

Connecticut Lottery The Connecticut Lottery Corporation, also called the CT Lottery, is the official lottery in Connecticut. It was created in 1971 by then-Gov. Thomas Meskill, who signed Public Act No. 865. The first tickets were sold on February 15, 1972. The Conne ...

's ''Cash 5'' game * "The Kicker", an option in the

Ohio Lottery The Ohio Lottery is a state lottery run by the Ohio Lottery Commission. Its games consist of scratch tickets; Pick 3, Pick 4, Pick 5 ("numbers games"); Rolling Cash 5, Classic Lotto, Keno, Lucky for Life, Mega Millions, and Powerball. The Lotter ...

's ''Classic Lotto'' game

Music

* ''The Kicker'' (Bobby Hutcherson album), 1999 * ''The Kicker'' (Joe Henderson album), 1967 * ''Kicker'' (EP), by The Get Up Kids (2018)

Other

Kicker (journalism) News style, journalistic style, or news-writing style is the prose style used for news reporting in media such as newspapers, radio and television. News writing attempts to answer all the basic questions about any particular event—who, what, wh ...

Kicker (KDE) Kicker (also referred to as ''KDE Panel'') is the main panel used in KDE 3 and earlier, and also in the TDE desktop. Together with KDesktop, it forms the graphical shell. It can be customized by the user. By default, it has the K Menu, a Desktop ...

, the taskbar for the K Desktop Environment *

Kicker (Transformers) ''Transformers: Energon'', known in Japan as , is an anime series which debuted on January 9, 2004. It is a direct sequel to '' Transformers: Armada''. It is also the first Japanese ''Transformers'' show where the ''Transformers'' are compute ...

, a ''Transformers: Energon'' character * Kicker Statue, created by sculptor Josef Tabachnyk *

Kickers Kickers is a youth brand created in 1970 in France that produces a wide range of footwear and clothing. Kickers was bought in 2007 by the Royer group. Kickers are primarily popular amongst British school children, with Kickers 'Lo' style shoe ...

, a European clothing and footwear brand * Kicker, the common name for the Oregon tax rebate * On a sailboat, the

boom vang A boom vang (US) or kicking strap (UK) (often shortened to "vang" or "kicker") is a line or piston system on a sailboat used to exert downward force on the boom and thus control the shape of the sail. The Collins English Dictionary defines it as ...

* A part of a pinball machine, see Pinball#Kickers and slingshots * Alternative name for '' Shao-lin's Road'', a video game {{disambiguation, surname