Rover may refer to:

People

* Constance Rover (1910–2005), English historian * Jolanda de Rover (born 1963), Dutch swimmer * Rover Thomas (c. 1920–1998), Indigenous Australian artist

Places

Rover, Arkansas Rover is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Yell County, Arkansas, United States. Rover is located on Arkansas Highway 28, west-southwest of Plainview. Rover has a post office with ZIP code 72860. It was first li ...

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Rover, Missouri Rover is an unincorporated community in western Oregon County, Missouri, Oregon County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. The community lies approximately eleven miles west of Alton, Missouri, Alton and is on Missouri Route M, 1.5 miles south of U.S. R ...

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Rover, West Virginia Rover is an Unincorporated area, unincorporated community in Wirt County, West Virginia, Wirt County, West Virginia, United States. References

Unincorporated communities in West Virginia Unincorporated communities in Wirt County, We ...

, US * Røver Anchorage, Bouvet Island, Norway * Rover Creek, British Columbia, Canada

Arts and entertainment

Literature

* ''Rover'', the US title of '' They Came on Viking Ships'', a children's novel by Jackie French * ''The Rover'' (story paper), a British boys' story paper which started in 1922

Music

* "Rover" (BlocBoy JB song), 2018 **"Rover 2.0", a 2018 remake by BlocBoy JB featuring 21 Savage from the mixtape '' Simi'' * "Rover" (S1mba song), 2020 viral hit by S1mba featuring DTG * "Rover" (UCLA song), a sports cheer at the University of California Los Angeles * "The Rover" (Led Zeppelin song), a song by Led Zeppelin on their 1975 double album ''Physical Graffiti'' * " The Irish Rover", an Irish folk song about a magnificent sailing ship that reaches an unfortunate end

Fiction

Rover (robot dog) ''Lunar Jim'' is a Canadian animated science-fiction stop-motion television series that aired from January 2, 2006 to April 24, 2012. The series centered around Lunar Jim, an astronaut on the blue moon L22. The series, produced by Halifax Fil ...

, a character on ''Lunar Jim'' always helping on Jim's missions * Rover (''The Prisoner''), a fictional balloon device in the 1967 British television program ''The Prisoner'' * Rover, the main character in the novella '' Roverandom'' by J.R.R. Tolkien * Rover, the name of two vehicles with artificial intelligence, built by Marvel Comics' Hank Pym * The Rovers, an informal name for the Rovers Return Inn, a fictional pub in British soap opera ''Coronation Street''

Television

* ''Rovers'' (TV series), a British television show

Science

* Rover (space exploration), a vehicle that explores the surface of an astronomical body ** Lunar rover, a vehicle designed to move across the surface of the Moon ** Mars rover, a vehicle designed to explore the surface of Mars * ROVER, a military system that receives video images from aircraft

Sport

* Rover (ice hockey), a long-defunct ice hockey position * Rover, a position in

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...

Transport

Automobiles and motorcycles

* Freight Rover (1981–1986), a commercial vehicle manufacturing division of Leyland * Land Rover Group (1981–1987), a light commercial vehicle division of Leyland * Land Rover, a brand of 4-wheel drive vehicles by the British manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover * MG Rover Group (2000–2005), a British mass-production car manufacturer, formerly the Rover Group *

Rover Company The Rover Company Limited was a British car manufacturing company that operated from its base in Solihull in Warwickshire. Its lasting reputation for quality and performance was such that its first postwar model reviewed by '' Road & Track'' i ...

(1885–1967), a British car manufacturing company, absorbed into Leyland Motor Corporation * Rover Group (1986–2000), a British car manufacturer, previously known as British Leyland *

Rover Light Armoured Car The Light Armoured Car (Aust), also known as Rover, was an armoured car produced in Australia during the Second World War. History and description At the outbreak of the Second World War, the United Kingdom was unable to meet the needs of ...

, an armoured car produced in Australia during World War II * Rover (marque), British automotive marque (brand) in use from 1904 to 2005 * Rover (motorcycles), a British bicycle and motorcycle manufacturer before it began the manufacture of motor cars

Business (transport)

Rover (ticket) National Rail (NR) is the trading name licensed for use by the Rail Delivery Group, an unincorporated association whose membership consists of the passenger train operating companies (TOCs) of England, Scotland, and Wales. The TOCs run the p ...

, a type of bus or train ticket issued in the UK *

Rover Coaches Rover Coaches is an Australian bus company operating services in the Hunter Valley. History In 1925, George Ryder purchased two small bus operators, the South Maitland Motor Company and the Marble Bar Motor Service, and named the company Rover ...

, an Australian bus company operating services in the Hunter Valley

Locomotives

* GWR Rover class, a class of locomotives on the Great Western Railway * ''Rover'', a

GWR 3031 Class The Dean Single, 3031 Class, or Achilles Class was a type of steam locomotive built by the British Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1899. They were designed by William Dean for passenger work. The first 30 members of the class were built ...

locomotive in service on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915

Watercraft

* HMS ''Rover'', the name of seven ships of the Royal Navy * ''Rover'' (barque), the American merchant ship involved in the Rover Incident of 1867 * ''Rover'' (log canoe), a Chesapeake Bay log canoe, built about 1886 * ''Rover'' (privateering ship), a ship from Nova Scotia, launched in 1800 * ''Rover'' (yacht), a luxury steam yacht built for P&O chairman, Lord Inchcape, in 1930 * Rover-class tanker, a class of ships in the Royal Fleet Auxiliary of the UK

Other uses

Rover (fish) The Emmelichthyidae are a family of small to medium-sized marine fish known commonly as rovers. The family was once much larger, including a wide range of plankton-eating fish, but most of the genera were discovered to be unrelated examples of ...

, common name for fish in the family Emmelichthyidae * Rover chair, designed by industrial designer Ron Arad * Rover Ruckus, the fourteenth FIRST Tech Challenge game * Rover Scout, a programme within Scouting in some countries for young men and women above the age range for Boy and Girl Scouts *

Rover.com Rover.com is an American company which operates an online marketplace for people to buy and sell pet care services including pet sitting, dog boarding, and dog walking. Rover.com was founded in 2011 in Seattle, Washington ...

(website), a Seattle-based company selling pet services