Skipjack may refer to:

Zoology

* Skipjack tuna, a fish of the family ''Scombridae'' * A common name for

Elateridae Elateridae or click beetles (or "typical click beetles" to distinguish them from the related families Cerophytidae and Eucnemidae, which are also capable of clicking) are a family of beetles. Other names include elaters, snapping beetles, sp ...

(click beetles) *

Skipjack shad The skipjack herring (''Alosa chrysochloris'') is a North American, migratory, fresh- and brackish water fish species in the herring family Clupeidae. The name skipjack shad comes from the fact that it is commonly seen leaping out of the water wh ...

, the fish species, ''Alosa chrysochloris'' * Common name for ''

Pseudocaranx georgianus Silver trevally, ''Pseudocaranx georgianus'', (also known as skippy, skipjack trevally and silver bream) is a jack of the family Carangidae found around the coast of Australia and New Zealand. Description The fish can grow to a length of and w ...

'', also known as silver trevally or skippy.

Maritime

Skipjack 15 The Skipjack 15 is an American sailing dinghy that was designed by Harry R. Sindle and Carter Pyle and first built in 1965.Sherwood, Richard M.: ''A Field Guide to Sailboats of North America, Second Edition'', pages 46-47. Houghton Mifflin Co ...

, an American sailing dinghy design * HMS ''Skipjack'', Royal Navy,

Halcyon class minesweeper The ''Halcyon'' class was a class of 21 oil-fired minesweepers (officially, "fleet minesweeping sloops") built for the British Royal Navy between 1933 and 1939. They were given traditional small ship names used historically by the Royal Navy a ...

, sunk by bombs in 1940 *

Skipjack (boat) The skipjack is a traditional fishing boat used on the Chesapeake Bay for oyster dredging. It is a sailboat which succeeded the bugeye as the chief oystering boat on the bay, and it remains in service due to laws restricting the use of powerb ...

, a type of fishing boat used on the Chesapeake Bay, USA * USS ''Skipjack'', the name of three United States Navy submarines * ''Skipjack'' class submarine, a class of United States Navy nuclear submarines

In computing

Skipjack (cipher) In cryptography, Skipjack is a block cipher—an algorithm for encryption—developed by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). Initially classified, it was originally intended for use in the controversial Clipper chip. Subsequently, the algo ...

, a block cipher, designed by the US National Security Agency * Skipjack, the code name for Linspire 6.0, a Linux distribution * Skipjack, the code name for the VAX 8550 computer system, introduced by Digital Equipment Corporation in 1986

Other

Baltimore Skipjacks The Baltimore Skipjacks were a minor league professional ice hockey team from Baltimore, Maryland, United States. The Skipjacks originated in 1979, and played as the Baltimore Clippers in the Eastern Hockey League (1978–1981), Eastern Hockey L ...

, former professional ice hockey team *

Skipjack Wind Farm Skipjack is a 966 MW capacity off shore wind farm, proposed by Ørsted US Offshore Wind to be built on the Outer Continental Shelf Offshore Delaware, approximately from the coast opposite Fenwick Island. It was originally projected that the proj ...

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