Skipper or skippers may refer to:

Rank

Skipper (boating) A sea captain, ship's captain, captain, master, or shipmaster, is a high-grade licensed mariner who holds ultimate command and responsibility of a merchant vessel.Aragon and Messner, 2001, p.3. The captain is responsible for the safe and efficie ...

, a person who has command of a vessel * Skipper (rank), a former warrant rank in the British Royal Naval Reserve. Also informal for an officer of sergeant rank in British policing * The leader of a

Sea Scouts (Boy Scouts of America) Sea Scouts is a program of the Boy Scouts of America for young men and women ages 14 (or 13 and have completed the eighth grade) through 20. Aims and principles In addition to the Scout Oath and Law, Sea Scouts also subscribe to the Sea Promis ...

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Sports

* Another name for a team's

manager (baseball) In baseball, the field manager (commonly referred to as the manager) is the equivalent of a head coach who is responsible for overseeing and making final decisions on all aspects of on-field team strategy, lineup selection, training and instruc ...

captain (association football) The team captain of an association football team, sometimes known as the skipper, is a team member chosen to be the on-pitch leader of the team; they are often one of the older or more experienced members of the squad, or a player that can heav ...

, or captain (cricket) * One who skips using a

skipping rope A skipping rope (British English) or jump rope (American English) is a tool used in the sport of skipping/jump rope where one or more participants jump over a rope swung so that it passes under their feet and over their heads. There are multi ...

* Houston Skippers, a minor league ice hockey team based in Houston, Texas, that played in the 1946 season * Skipper (cannon), the game cannon used by the Virginia Tech Hokies football team

People

* Skipper (surname) * Rudolf Scheepers "Skipper" Badenhorst (born 1978), South African rugby union player * Hargrove "Skipper" Bowles (1919–1986), American politician and businessman * Klemen Andersen "Skipper Clement" (c. 1484–1536), Danish merchant, captain, privateer and leader of a peasant rebellion * Francis "Skipper" Gidney (1890–1928), an early leader of the Scouting movement in the United Kingdom * Thomas Pinckney "Skipper" Heard (1898–1980), longtime athletics director of Louisiana State University * Skipper Mullins, Lewis "Skipper" Mullins (born c. 1945), American Taekwondo 10th degree black belt * Skipper Roberts (baseball), Clarence "Skipper" Roberts (1888–1963), American Major League Baseball catcher * Skipper Wise, American singer, songwriter, musician and entrepreneur

Places

* Skippers, Virginia, an unincorporated community * Skippers Canyon, New Zealand

Arts and entertainment

* The Skipper, a character from the television series ''Gilligan's Island'' * Skipper (Barbie), a doll, Barbie's younger sister * Skipper (Madagascar), a character in ''Madagascar'' and ''The Penguins of Madagascar'' * ''Kill Cruise'' (German title: ''Der Skipper''), a 1990 film starring Jürgen Prochnow, Patsy Kensit and Elizabeth Hurley * Skippers (TV programme), ''Skippers'' (TV programme), an Irish documentary series * Skipper Riley, a character in the movie ''Planes (film), Planes''

Animals

* Skipper (butterfly), a family of butterflies * Another name for the European sprat, a fish * The larvae of Cheese fly, Piophila casei are sometimes called "cheese skippers" or "ham skippers"

Aviation

* Beechcraft Skipper, a model of aircraft * Skippers Aviation, a charter airline based in Osborne Park, a suburb of Perth, Australia

Other uses

* AGM-123 Skipper II, a short-range laser-guided missile * AMT Skipper, a semi-automatic pistol * USS Skipper (AMc-104), USS ''Skipper'' (AMc-104), a U.S. Navy minesweeper * Skippers Seafood & Chowder House, a chain of independently owned and operated restaurants * Skipper (computer software), a visualization tool and code generator for PHP ORM frameworks