Grand Slam
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Grand Slam may refer to:

Card games

  • In the game of contract bridge
    Contract bridge
    Contract bridge, usually known simply as bridge, is a trick-taking card game using a standard deck of 52 playing cards played by four players in two competing partnerships with partners sitting opposite each other around a small table...

     a bid to win all the tricks of that hand. By extension, the taking of all the important elements in an endeavour.

Equestrianism

  • Grand Slam (horse)
    Grand Slam (horse)
    Grand Slam is an American thoroughbred Stallion racehorse. Trained by D. Wayne Lukas, the dark bay son of Gone West was purchased at the September 1996 Keeneland Sales as a yearling for $300,000 by Robert & Christina Baker, William Mack and David Cornstein.Sired by Gone West and out of Bright...

     (born 1995), graded stakes race winning thoroughbred race horse
  • Grand Slam of Eventing
    Grand Slam of Eventing
    The Grand Slam of Eventing, sponsored by Rolex, consists of three of the top CCI**** eventing competitions in the world. To win the Grand Slam, a rider must consecutively win all three events, although they are permitted to ride different horses in each competition...

    , consecutively winning 3 of the most prestigious three-day events in the world

Golf

  • Grand Slam (golf)
    Grand Slam (golf)
    The Grand Slam in golf is winning all the golf's major championships in the same calendar year.-The Men's Grand Slam:The Grand Slam in men's golf is an unofficial concept, having changed over time. In the modern era, The Grand Slam is generally considered to be winning all four of golf's major...

    , a career achievement
  • PGA Grand Slam of Golf
    PGA Grand Slam of Golf
    The PGA Grand Slam of Golf is an annual off-season golf tournament contested by the year's winners of the four major championships of regular men's golf, which are the Masters Tournament, the U.S. Open, The Open Championship , and the PGA Championship...

    , an annual competition

Tennis

  • Grand Slam (real tennis)
    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* U.S. Open* French Open* British Open...

    , in the sport of real tennis is earned by a player who holds the Australian Open, U.S. Open, French Open and British Open titles in the same calendar year
  • Grand Slam (tennis)
    Grand Slam (tennis)
    The four Major tennis tournaments, also called the Slams, are the most important tennis events of the year in terms of world tour ranking points, tradition, prize-money awarded, strength and size of player field, and public attention. They are the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon, and...

    , tennis tournaments, also called the Grand Slams, are the four most important tennis events of the year in terms of world ranking points, tradition, prize-money awarded, and public attention: the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon, and the U.S. Open
  • Grand Slam Cup
    Grand Slam Cup
    The Grand Slam Cup was a tennis tournament held annually at the Olympiahalle in Munich in Germany from 1990 through 1999. The event was organized by the International Tennis Federation , which invited the best-performing players in the year's Grand Slam events to compete in the Grand Slam Cup.The...

    , a former international tennis tournament held in Germany
  • Pepsi Grand Slam
    Pepsi Grand Slam
    The Pepsi Grand Slam was a men's tennis tournament played as part of the Grand Prix circuit from 1976-1981. The tournament was played in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina in 1976 and Boca Raton, Florida from 1977-1981. It was held on outdoor clay courts and featured a field of four players.-Singles...

    , a former men's tennis competition

Other sports

  • Grand slam (baseball)
    Grand slam (baseball)
    In the sport of baseball, a grand slam is a home run hit with all three bases occupied by baserunners , thereby scoring four runs—the most possible in one play. According to The Dickson Baseball Dictionary, the term originated in the card game of contract bridge, in which a grand slam involves...

    , a home run hit with all the bases occupied by baserunners, thereby scoring four runs—the most possible on a single play
  • Grand Slam Chess Association
    Grand Slam Chess Association
    The Grand Slam Chess Association is a series of annual chess tournaments. As of March 2011, active members of the Grand Slam Chess Association include:*Pearl Spring chess tournament, held in October in Nanjing, China...

    , most prestigious chess tournaments besides the World Chess Championship cycle
  • Capital One Grand Slam of Curling
    Capital One Grand Slam of Curling
    The Capital One Grand Slam is a series of curling bonspiels and are a part of the annual World Curling Tour. Grand Slams tend to offer the most amount of money out of all the bonspiels in the curling season, and usually feature the best teams from across Canada and around the World...

    , a series of curling bonspiels part of the annual World Curling Tour
  • Grand Slam (PBA)
    Grand Slam (PBA)
    The Grand Slam in the Philippine Basketball Association refers to a PBA team who has won all three conferences in a single season. After the PBA reduced the number of conferences from three to two beginning in 2004, the term became quite obsolete to some...

     of the Philippine Basketball Association
  • Grand Slam (rugby union)
    Grand Slam (Rugby Union)
    In rugby union, a Grand Slam occurs when one team in the Six Nations Championship manages to beat all the others during one year's competition...

    , occurs when one team in the Six Nations Championship (or its predecessors) manages to beat all the others during one year's competition. The last team to have won the Six Nations Grand Slam was France in 2010
  • Grand Slam Paris
    Grand Slam Paris
    The Grand Slam Paris is an international, judo competition held at the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy in Paris, as part of the IJF Grand Prix series.- Venues :*Stade Pierre de Coubertin...

     and Grand Slam Tokyo, Judo championships
  • Grand Slam (NASCAR)
    Winston Million
    The Winston Million was a cash prize award program in the NASCAR Winston Cup series, based on the Grand Slam concept. From 1985 to 1997, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, then the title sponsor of NASCAR's premier circuit, offered an award of $1 million for any driver who won three of the four "crown...

    , a cash prize award program on the NASCAR Winston Cup series, based on the Grand Slam concept
  • Grand Slam Championship, a recognition defined by winning four specific professional wrestling championships
  • Grand Slam of Ultrarunning
    Grand Slam of Ultrarunning
    The Grand Slam of Ultrarunning is a set of four of the most prestigious 100 mile races contested in the United States, comprising the Western States 100 in California, the Vermont 100 Mile Endurance Run in Vermont, the Wasatch Front 100 Mile Endurance Run in Utah, and the Leadville Trail 100 in...

    , oldest and most prestigious 100 mile races in the U.S.
  • Grand Chelem, leading every lap of a Formula One Grand Prix after starting from pole position, while also setting the fastest lap.

Film and Television

  • 50 Grand Slam
    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, with John Harlan as the announcer....

    , 1976 US game show
  • Grand Slam (1967 film)
    Grand Slam (1967 film)
    Grand Slam is a 1967 Italian crime film directed by Giuliano Montaldo.Edward G Robinson plays a seemingly mild-mannered teacher, Professor James Anders, an American working in Rio De Janeiro. Anders, bored with years of teaching, decides to put together a team to pull off a diamond heist during...

    , a 1967 Italian heist movie
  • Grand Slam (1978 film)
    Grand Slam (1978 film)
    Grand Slam is a 1978 sports comedy film produced by BBC Wales. The film starred Oscar-winning actor Hugh Griffith, Windsor Davies, Dewi "Pws" Morris and Sion Probert...

    , a 1978 Welsh TV comedy movie
  • Grand Slam (TV series)
    Grand Slam (TV Series)
    Grand Slam is a television quiz show first created for Britain's Channel 4 in 2003. In its first and only series in the UK, the main host was Carol Vorderman. She was joined in the studio by analyst James Richardson...

    , a 2003 British quiz show
  • Grand Slam (US game show), a 2007 US remake of 2003 show
  • Grand Slam (G.I. Joe)
    Grand Slam (G.I. Joe)
    Grand Slam is a fictional character from the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero toyline, comic books and cartoon series of the 1980s. Grand Slam is the G.I. Joe Team's original laser artillery soldier.-Profile:...

    , a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe
  • Grandslam (Transformers), a character from the Transformers franchise

Music

  • Grand Slam (band)
    Grand Slam (band)
    Grand Slam or Phil Lynott's Grand Slam were a rock band, formed in 1984 as the brainchild of ex-Thin Lizzy frontman Phil Lynott.The name 'Grand Slam' was invented after a plethora of other band names had been considered, including 'Reactor Factor', 'Catastrophe', 'Hell Bent On Havoc', 'Slam Anthem'...

    , a band formed by Thin Lizzy bassist/vocalist Phil Lynott
  • Grand Slam (The Isley Brothers album), a 1981 album by the Isley Brothers
  • Grand Slam (Magic Slim album), a 1983 album by Magic Slim
  • Grand Slam (Spiderbait album), a 1999 album by Australian band Spiderbait

Games

  • Grand Monster Slam
    Grand Monster Slam
    Grand Monster Slam is a computer game for the Commodore Amiga, Commodore 64, Atari ST and PC. It is heavily based on the 1985 arcade game Penguin Wars. In Amiga Power's first All Time Top One Hundred in the inaugural 'Issue 0', it was declared to be the 100th best Amiga game of all time...

    , a 1989 computer game for the Commodore Amiga, Commodore 64, Atari ST and PC
  • Grand Slam Tennis, a 2009 video game developed by EA Sports
  • Grandslam Entertainment
    Grandslam Entertainment
    Grandslam Entertainment was a computer and video games software house based in Britain. It was formed in late 1987 from the ashes of Argus Press Software by former Argus Managing Director, Stephen Hall. Grandslam developed and published many games for home computers during the 1980s and 1990s...

    , a video game company

Military

  • Grand Slam (bomb), large (12 ton) British "earthquake bomb" of World War II
  • Grand Slam: a post-war project to upgrade USAF B-36 bombers to carry nuclear payloads.
  • Exercise Grand Slam, a major NATO naval exercise carried out in the Mediterranean in the 1950s

Other

  • Explorers Grand Slam
    Explorers Grand Slam
    The Explorers Grand Slam or Adventurers Grand Slam is an adventurers challenge to reach the North Pole, the South Pole and all of the Seven Summits....

     also known as Adventurers Grand Slam, an adventurers challenge to reach the North Pole, the South Pole and all of the Seven Summits
  • Grand Slam (Fly-Fishing Caribbean)
    Grand Slam (Fly-Fishing Caribbean)
    In Caribbean fly-fishing, a Grand Slam is when an angler is able to catch a bonefish, tarpon and permit during one day of fishing. The International Game Fish Association defines an Inshore Grand Slam as catching any three of the following species on the same day: bonefish, tarpon, permit,...

    , when an angler is able to catch a bonefish, tarpon and permit during one day of fishing
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