Grand Slam or Grand slam may refer to:

Games and sports

* Grand slam, winning category terminology originating in contract bridge and other

whist Whist is a classic English trick-taking card game which was widely played in the 18th and 19th centuries. Although the rules are simple, there is scope for strategic play. History In 1674, '' The Complete Gamester'' described the game Ru ...

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Athletics

* Grand Slam Track, professional track and field league

Auto racing

* Grand slam (Formula One), winning from pole position, leading every lap, and setting the fastest lap in a Grand Prix * Grand Slam (NASCAR), winning all NASCAR Cup Series majors in a calendar year

Brazilian jiu-jitsu

* IBJJF Grand Slam, achievement of winning all four major championships

Baseball

Grand slam (baseball) In baseball, a grand slam is a home run hit with bases loaded, all three bases occupied by baserunners ("bases loaded"), thereby scoring four run (baseball), runs—the most possible in one play. According to ''The Dickson Baseball Dictionary'', ...

, a home run with all bases occupied * Grand Slam Single (October 17, 1999), the hit that ended Game 5 of the 1999 National League Championship Series between the New York Mets and Atlanta Braves, at Shea Stadium

Basketball

* Grand slam (college basketball), a team winning both the

National Invitation Tournament The National Invitation Tournament (NIT) is an annual men's college basketball tournament operated by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Since 2023, all rounds of the tournament are played at various sites across the country whi ...

and NCAA tournament in the same year. *

Grand Slam (PBA) In Philippine sports leagues, a Grand Slam is the achievement of a team winning all three conferences (or tournaments) in a single season. The term originated in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA), as a traditional season is composed of ...

, one team winning all three major Philippine Basketball Association tournaments in one season

Equestrian

* Grand Slam (horse), an American thoroughbred * Equestrian Grand Slam, any of several events ** Grand Slam of Eventing, three particular world horse trials competitions ** Grand Slam of Show Jumping, one rider winning all three major annual competitions consecutively * Grand Slam of Thoroughbred racing, the US Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing plus either the Travers Stakes or the Breeders' Cup Classic

Golf

Grand Slam (golf) In golf, winning all of the sport's Major championships (golf), major championships in the same calendar year constitutes the Grand Slam. The modern (professional) Grand Slam would mean winning The Open Championship, U.S. Open (golf), U.S. Open, ...

, one player winning all four major annual tournaments * PGA Grand Slam of Golf, an annual off-season men's competition

Judo

* Grand Slam series, international judo tournaments held by the International Judo Federation

Tennis

Grand Slam (tennis) The Grand Slam in tennis is the achievement of winning all four major championships in one discipline in a calendar year. In doubles, a Grand Slam may be achieved as a team or as an individual with different partners. Winning all four major cha ...

, one player or pair winning all four major annual tournaments in a calendar year, or the tournaments themselves *

Pepsi Grand Slam The Pepsi Grand Slam of Tennis was a men's tennis tournament played as part of the Grand Prix circuit from 1976 to 1981. The tournament was played in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, in 1976 and Boca Raton, Florida, from 1977 to 1981. It was held o ...

, an annual men's professional tournament *

Grand Slam Cup The Grand Slam Cup was a tennis tournament held annually at the Olympiahalle in Munich, Germany from 1990 through 1999. The event was organized by the International Tennis Federation (ITF), which invited the best-performing players in the year's ...

, an annual international tournament *

Grand Slam (real tennis) A Grand Slam in the sport of real tennis is earned by a player who holds the following titles in the same calendar year: * Australian Open * US Open * French Open * British Open The concept was borrowed from lawn tennis's Grand Slam. As not all ...

, a player or pair winning all four major annual real tennis tournaments

Wrestling

AEW Grand Slam AEW Grand Slam is a series of professional wrestling television specials produced by the American promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW). The event was established in 2021 and originally aired as a two-part special, encompassing the broadcasts of '' ...

, an All Elite Wrestling event *

Wrestle Grand Slam in Tokyo Dome Wrestle Grand Slam in Tokyo Dome was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place on July 25, 2021, at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan. The event was originally scheduled to take ...

, a 2021 New Japan Pro-Wrestling event *

Grand Slam (professional wrestling) The Grand Slam is an accomplishment recognized by various professional wrestling professional wrestling promotion, promotions in the United States and Japan. It is a distinction given to a professional wrestler who has either won four specific Ch ...

, an accomplishment after winning all professional wrestling championships in a company.

Other games and sports

Explorers Grand Slam The Explorer's Grand Slam is an adventurer goal to reach the North Pole and South Pole, as well as climb the Seven Summits ( Everest, Aconcagua, Denali, Kilimanjaro, Elbrus, Vinson, and Puncak Jaya or Kosciuszko). History The original ...

or Adventurers Grand Slam, one person reaching the North Pole, South Pole, and all Seven Summits during a career *

Ocean Explorers Grand Slam The Ocean Explorers Grand Slam is an adventurer goal to complete open-water crossings on all five oceans using human-powered vessel. History In 2019, Icelandic explorer Fiann Paul led the first human-powered transit (by rowing) across the ...

, performing open-water crossing on each of the five oceans using human-powered vessel *

Grand Slam of Curling The Grand Slam of Curling (formerly branded as the Pinty's Grand Slam of Curling for sponsorship reasons) is a series of curling bonspiels that were formerly part of the annual World Curling Tour. Grand Slam events offer a purse of at least Ca ...

, a series of annual curling bonspiels *

Grand Slam of Darts The Grand Slam of Darts is a darts tournament organised by the Professional Darts Corporation and is known as the Mr Vegas Grand Slam of Darts for sponsorship purposes. The PDC used to invite the best performing players from its rival, the Briti ...

, a major professional darts tournament organised by the Professional Darts Corporation * Grand Slam of Ultrarunning, for a person finishing four annual 100-mile footraces in the U.S. *

Grand Slam (figure skating) Grand Slam (GS) is a term used by fans of figure skating for the winning all three major annual senior-level international competitions (World Figure Skating Championships, World Championships, Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final, Grand Prix F ...

, winning all three major annual senior-level international competitions within a single season *

Grand Slam (rugby union) In rugby union, a Grand Slam occurs when one team in the Six Nations Championship (or its Five Nations predecessor) beats all the others during one year's competition. This has been achieved 42 times in total, for the first time by Wales in 19 ...

, one national team defeating all others in the Six Nations Championship * Grand Slam (shinty), one club winning four annual shinty trophies * Grand slam, in

roller derby Roller derby is a roller skating contact sport played on an oval track by two teams of five skaters. It is played by approximately 1,250 amateur leaguesA Roller Derby league is synonymous with an individual club or team in other team sports, as ...

, a five-point scoring pass * Grand Slam of Keirin, for a cyclist to win all six GI events (or four for ) * Grand slam, in ski jumping, winning all four events in the same edition of

Four Hills Tournament The Four Hills Tournament () or the German-Austrian Ski Jumping Week () is a ski jumping event composed of four World Cup events and has taken place in Germany and Austria each year since 1953. With few exceptions, it has consisted of the ski ju ...

* Grand slam, in contract bridge, a contract to win all thirteen tricks in one deal * S2 6.7 Grand Slam, an American racing sailboat design

Entertainment, arts and media

* Grand Slam (G.I. Joe), a character * Grand Slam of Hollywood show business, winning Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Awards in an American entertainment career (see

List of people who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards EGOT, an acronym for the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Awards, is the designation given to people who have won all four of the major performing art awards in the United States. Respectively, these awards honor outstanding achievements in telev ...

} * Grand Slam of Philippine film industry, winning category awards from four major film award-giving bodies in a year (see

List of people who won the Philippine movie grand slam The Grand Slam in the Philippine movie industry refers to people who have won all four major film awards in the same category in the same year. The four major organizations that evaluate all Filipino films released in the country and hand out awar ...

)

Films

* ''Grand Slam'' (1933 film), an American comedy * ''Grand Slam'' (1967 film), an Italian heist movie * ''Grand Slam'' (1978 film), a Welsh TV comedy

Music

Grand Slam (band) Grand Slam (or Phil Lynott's Grand Slam) are an Ireland, Irish-United Kingdom, British rock music, rock band originally formed in 1984 by Phil Lynott (lead vocals and bass guitar), after the breakup of his earlier ensemble Thin Lizzy. Grand S ...

, a band formed by Phil Lynott * Grand Slam, a lineup of

Juice Leskinen Juhani Juice Leskinen (born Pauli Matti Juhani Leskinen; 19 February 1950 – 24 November 2006), better known as Juice Leskinen ( as if the word ''juice'' were Finnish) was one of the most important and successful Finnish singer-songwriters of ...

Albums

* ''Grand Slam'' (The Isley Brothers album) * ''Grand Slam'' (Magic Slim album) * ''Grand Slam'' (Spiderbait album) * ''Grand Slam'' (Spinners album)

Television

* ''

50 Grand Slam ''50 Grand Slam'' is a game show from Ralph Andrews Productions that aired on NBC from October 4 to December 31, 1976. Tom Kennedy hosted the show (although Peter Haskell served as emcee for the unaired pilot), with John Harlan as the announcer ...

'', a 1976 American game show * ''Grand Slam'' (BBC TV), 1980s televised contract bridge tournaments * ''Grand Slam'' (TV series), a 1990 American action drama * ''Grand Slam'' (British game show), 2003 ** ''Grand Slam'' (American game show), a 2007 American remake

Video games

* ''Golf Grand Slam'' (video game), for the Nintendo NES *

Grand Slam Chess Association The Grand Slam Chess Association was a series of annual chess tournaments since 2007 till 2012. List of tournaments Tournaments of the Grand Slam Chess Association were: * Pearl Spring chess tournament, held in October in Nanjing, China * Tata ...

, a series of annual chess tournaments *''

Grand Slam Tennis The Grand Slam in tennis is the achievement of winning all four major championships in one discipline in a calendar year. In doubles, a Grand Slam may be achieved as a team or as an individual with different partners. Winning all four major cha ...

'', a 2009 game for the Nintendo Wii * ''Grand Slam'' (video game), a 1997 baseball game * Grandslam Entertainment, a video game company *

Bilbao Chess Masters Final The Bilbao Chess Masters Final (previously called the Grand Slam Chess Final) was an annual chess tournament which between 2008 and 2012 brought together the strongest players from the previous year's "Grand Slam" events. Series organisers Grand ...

or Grand Slam Masters Final, a culminating annual chess tournament

Military

Grand Slam (bomb) The Bomb, Medium Capacity, (Grand Slam) was a earthquake bomb used by RAF Bomber Command against German targets towards the end of the Second World War. The bomb was originally called Tallboy Large until the term Tallboy got into the press a ...

, a 10-tonne British "earthquake bomb" of World War II *

Exercise Grand Slam Exercise Grand Slam was an early major naval exercise of the newly formed North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). This 1952 combined naval exercise took place in the Mediterranean Sea, and it included a naval force that was described as being " ...

, a 1952 NATO naval exercise in the Mediterranean Sea * Grand Slam Installation, a modification of the B-36 bomber to add nuclear weapons delivery capability *

Operation Grand Slam Operation Grand Slam was a key military operation of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. It refers to a plan drawn up by the Pakistan Army in May 1965, that consisted of an attack on the vital Akhnoor Bridge in Jammu and Kashmir, India. The br ...

, a Pakistan Army offensive plan during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 * Operation Grand Slam, the US espionage mission which triggered the

1960 U-2 incident On 1 May 1960, a United States Lockheed U-2, U-2 reconnaissance aircraft, spy plane was shot down by the Soviet Air Defence Forces while conducting photographic aerial reconnaissance inside Soviet Union, Soviet territory. Flown by American pil ...

Other uses

* Grand Slam breakfast, a dish at

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