Skipper

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Skipper or skippers may refer to:

Rank

Skipper (boating), a person who has command of a vessel
Skipper (rank), a former warrant rank in the British Royal Naval Reserve
The leader of a Sea Scouts (Boy Scouts of America) troop

Sports

Another name for a team's manager (baseball), captain (association football), or captain (cricket)
One who skips using a skipping rope
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)
Skipper Badenhorst (born 1978), South African rugby union player
Skipper Bowles (1919–1986), American politician and businessman
Skipper Clement (c. 1484–1536), Danish merchant, captain, privateer and leader of a peasant rebellion
Francis 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 (born c. 1945), American Taekwondo 10th degree black belt
Skipper Roberts (baseball) (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), an Irish documentary series
Skipper Riley, a character in the movie Planes

Animals

Skipper (butterfly), a family of butterflies
Another name for the European sprat, a fish

Other uses

AGM-123 Skipper II, a short-range laser-guided missile
AMT Skipper, a semi-automatic pistol
USS Skipper (AMc-104), a U.S. Navy minesweeper
Beechcraft Skipper, a model of aircraft
Skippers Aviation, a charter airline based in Osborne Park, a suburb of Perth, Australia
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