• Gossamer (spider silk), very fine spider silk used for ballooning or kiting by various species of spiders
• Gossamer (fabric), very light, sheer, gauze-like fabric

Technology

• Gossamer Condor
  Gossamer Condor
  -See also:-Further reading:*Morton Grosser. Gossamer Odyssey: The Triumph of Human-Powered Flight. MBI Press, 2004; Dover Publications, Inc., 1991; Houghton Mifflin Co., 1981*Morton Grosser. On Gossamer Wings. York Custom Graphics, 1982...
  
  , the first human-powered aircraft capable of controlled and sustained flight
• Gossamer Albatross
  Gossamer Albatross
  -See also:-Further reading:*Allen, Bryan. Winged Victory of "Gossamer Albatross". National Geographic, November 1979, vol. 156, n. 5, p. 640-651...
  
  , a human-powered aircraft built by American aeronautical engineer Dr. Paul B. MacCready's AeroVironment
• The code name of the motherboard used in first-generation Apple G3 Macs
  Power Macintosh G3
  The Power Macintosh G3, commonly called "beige G3s" or "platinum G3s" for the color of their cases, was a series of personal computers designed, manufactured, and sold by Apple Computer, Inc. from November 1997 to January 1999...
  
  

Music, literature and television

• The Gossamer Years, an English title for the Japanese classical work of literature Kagerō Nikki
• Gossamer (novel)
  Gossamer (novel)
  Gossamer is a novel with elements of both fantasy and realism for young adults by Lois Lowry.- Plot summary :The book's omniscient point of view, Littlest One, affectionately called Littlest, is out on a dark night...
  
  , a 2006 novel by Lois Lowry
• Gossamer, a 1995 short story by Stephen Baxter in his collection Vacuum Diagrams
  Vacuum Diagrams
  Vacuum Diagrams is a collection of science fiction short stories written by Stephen Baxter. The collection connects the novels of the Xeelee Sequence and also shows the history of mankind in the Xeelee universe, and ultimately the universe...
  
  and The Hard SF Renaissance anthology
• Gossamer (Looney Tunes)
  Gossamer (Looney Tunes)
  Gossamer is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons. The character is a hairy, red monster. His rectangular body is perched on two giant tennis shoes, and his heart-shaped face is composed of only two oval eyes and a wide mouth, with...
  
  , a character in the Looney Tunes cartoons
• The Gossamer Project
  The Gossamer Project
  The Gossamer Project is a group of specialty archives that, combined, contain the vast majority of X-Files fan fiction on the Internet. In the mid to late 1990s, the Gossamer Archives/Project was one of the "big three" single media fandom-focused archives on the Internet, and remained the largest...
  
   or Gossamer Archive, a large X-Files fan fiction archive
• "Gossamer", a song by The Smashing Pumpkins from the tour for Zeitgiest but not released on the album
• "The Gossamer Strand", an instrumental song by Deadsoul Tribe from the album A Lullaby for the Devil
  A Lullaby for the Devil
  A Lullaby for the Devil is the fifth full-length studio album by the progressive metal band Deadsoul Tribe. It was released on September 11, 2007 by InsideOut Music. The initial pressing of the album will include a multimedia section with acoustic live material...
  
  
• "Gossamer Thread", a song by David Gray from the album Foundling
  Foundling (album)
  -Personnel:* David Gray - vocals, guitar, piano, harmonium, Wurlitzer, suitcase organ* Keith Prior - drums, percussion* Robbie Malone - bass, acoustic and electric guitar, bouzouki, harmonium, backing vocals...
  
  

Other uses

• Lycaenidae
  Lycaenidae
  The Lycaenidae are the second-largest family of butterflies, with about 6000 species worldwide, whose members are also called gossamer-winged butterflies...
  
  , a family of butterflies with gossamer wings, also called gossamer-winged butterflies
• Gossamer, a golden ale produced by the Half Acre Beer
  Half Acre Beer
  Half Acre Beer Company was started in 2006 by Gabriel Magliaro. It opened originally as a Chicago-based beer business with its office located in Chicago's meat packing district...
  
   Company in Chicago
• The gossamer rings of Jupiter
  Rings of Jupiter
  The planet Jupiter has a system of rings, known as the rings of Jupiter or the Jovian ring system. It was the third ring system to be discovered in the Solar System, after those of Saturn and Uranus. It was first observed in 1979 by the Voyager 1 space probe and thoroughly investigated in the 1990s...