Grasshopper (disambiguation)
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A grasshopper
Grasshopper
The grasshopper is an insect of the suborder Caelifera in the order Orthoptera. To distinguish it from bush crickets or katydids, it is sometimes referred to as the short-horned grasshopper...

is a common type of herbivorous insect.

Grasshopper may also refer to:

Sports

  • Grasshopper Club Zürich, a football club from Switzerland
  • The Grasshopper (horse)
    The Grasshopper (horse)
    The Grasshopper was a horse that competed in the sport of eventing, and is most notable for being one of only five horses to have competed in six or more CCIOs.*Foaled: ~1945*Place of Birth: County Wicklow, Ireland*Sex: Gelding...

    , an eventer, foaled c. 1945
  • GCK Lions
    GCK Lions
    GCK Lions is a Swiss professional ice hockey team founded in 1932. They are currently in the National League B, Switzerland's second tier ice hockey division. The home arena is Eishalle Küsnacht . The team has won one Swiss Championships, in 1966, as well as two championships in the Swiss second...

    , or Grasshopper Lions, an ice hockey team from Zürich, Switzerland
  • Greensboro Grasshoppers
    Greensboro Grasshoppers
    The Greensboro Grasshoppers are a minor league baseball team in Greensboro, North Carolina, USA...

    , a minor league baseball team in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States

Technology

  • Grasshopper escapement
    Grasshopper escapement
    The grasshopper escapement is an unusual, low-friction escapement for pendulum clocks invented by British clockmaker John Harrison around 1722. An escapement, part of every mechanical clock, is the mechanism that causes the clock's gears to move forward by a fixed distance at regular intervals and...

    , a mechanical component of a clock
  • Grasshopper (software)
    Grasshopper (software)
    Grasshopper is a framework to allow the use of VisualBasic and C Sharp applications on a Java Application Server. It is produced by Mainsoft....

    , a framework to allow the use of VisualBasic and C# on a Java Application Server
  • Grasshopper 3D (programming language)
    Grasshopper 3d
    Grasshopper™ is a visual programming language developed by David Rutten at Robert McNeel & Associates. Grasshopper runs within the Rhinoceros 3D CAD application. Grasshopper is visual programming language. Programs are created by dragging components onto a canvas. The outputs to these components...

    , a graphical algorithm editor tightly integrated with Rhinoceros 3D
    Rhinoceros 3D
    Rhinoceros is a stand-alone, commercial NURBS-based 3-D modeling tool, developed by Robert McNeel & Associates. The software is commonly used for industrial design, architecture, marine design, jewelry design, automotive design, CAD / CAM, rapid prototyping, reverse engineering as well as the...

    , a NURBS-based 3D modeling tool
  • Grasshopper (company), a company that provides virtual phone system services
  • Grasshopper, one of several monoplanes flown by the United States during and after World War II, including the L-2 Grasshopper, Aeronca L-3
    Aeronca L-3
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    , Piper L-4
    Piper J-3
    The Piper J-3 Cub is a small, simple, light aircraft that was built between 1937 and 1947 by Piper Aircraft. With tandem seating, it was intended for flight training but became one of the most popular and best-known light aircraft of all time...

    , and Stinson L-13
    Stinson L-13
    -References:*"." Flight, 9 September 1955, p. 466.* rare photos of L-13 folded for towing by jeep*Harding, Stephen. U.S. Army Aircraft Since 1947. Shrewsbury, UK:Airlife, 1990. ISBN 1-85310-102-8....

  • Grasshopper (robot weather station)
    Grasshopper (robot weather station)
    The Grasshopper was a project by the United States Air Force and US Navy to develop portable robot weather station deployed by parachute from long range aircraft in the early 1950s...

    , weather stations developed by the USAF and the US Navy in the 1950s and deployed by parachute from long range aircraft
  • Grasshopper locomotive, an early locomotive of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, using a beam engine design resembling a grasshopper
    • Atlantic (locomotive)
      Atlantic (locomotive)
      Atlantic was the name of an early American steam locomotive built by Phineas Davis for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1832.-Design and construction:...

      , a surviving example of a Grasshopper locomotive
  • Grasshopper (rocket), Falcon 9
    Falcon 9
    Falcon 9 is a rocket-powered spaceflight launch system designed and manufactured by SpaceX. Both stages of its two-stage-to-orbit vehicle use liquid oxygen and rocket-grade kerosene propellants...

     vertical landing development

Entertainment

  • Grasshopper (album), the seventh album by J. J. Cale
  • Grasshopper (band)
    Grasshopper (band)
    Grasshopper is a Hong Kong Cantopop boy group formed in 1982. The band consists of Edmond So Chi Wai, Calvin Choy Yat Chi and Remus Choy Yat Kit. Calvin and Remus are brothers and grew up with neighbour Edmond in a poor neighbourhood in Hong Kong. It was Remus who was interested in dancing and...

    , a Cantopop group from Hong Kong
  • Grasshopper chess
    Grasshopper chess
    Grasshopper chess is a chess variant, in which the pawns are allowed to promote to a fairy piece grasshopper. Grasshopper must hop over other pieces in order to move or capture....

    , a chess variant
    • Grasshopper (chess piece)
      Grasshopper (chess piece)
      The Grasshopper is a fairy chess piece that moves along ranks, files, and diagonals but only by hopping over another piece at any distance to the square immediately closest. If there is no piece to hop over, it cannot move. If the square beyond a piece is occupied by a piece of the opposite color,...

      , a chess piece used in grasshopper chess
  • Grasshopper (comics)
    Grasshopper (comics)
    The Grasshopper is the name of multiple humorous Marvel Comics superheroes, all created by Dan Slott. No Grasshopper to date has survived past the issue they first appeared in. The Grasshoppers are a simultaneous homage to and satire of stereotypical superheroes and Marvel's tendency towards...

    , a Marvel Comics superhero
  • Grasshopper (musician)
    Grasshopper (musician)
    Grasshopper is an American musician with the band Mercury Rev. He has also appeared with Rev side-project Harmony Rockets, his own band Grasshopper and the Golden Crickets, and as a guest musician on numerous other recordings.-Early years:Mackowiak's early years have been colored by a 1991...

     (born 1967), American musician with the band Mercury Rev
  • Grasshopper Manufacture
    Grasshopper Manufacture
    Grasshopper Manufacture, Inc. is a Japanese video game development house founded on March 30, 1998 in Suginami, Japan. Grasshopper gained mainstream attention in 2005 for the Nintendo GameCube and PlayStation 2 game Killer7...

    , a video game company
  • Grasshopper, nickname of fictional character Kwai Chang Caine in the television series Kung Fu
    Kung Fu (TV series)
    Kung Fu is an American television series that starred David Carradine. It was created by Ed Spielman, directed and produced by Jerry Thorpe, and developed by Herman Miller, who was also a writer for, and co-producer of, the series...

  • Grasshopper, a cannabis coffee shop
    Cannabis coffee shop
    Coffeeshops are establishments in the Netherlands where the sale of cannabis for personal consumption by the public is tolerated by the local authorities ....

     in Amsterdam

Other uses

  • Grasshopper (cocktail), an alcoholic beverage
  • Sopwith Grasshopper
    Sopwith Grasshopper
    -Bibliography:...

    , a British two-seat touring biplane
  • Grasshöpper Wheat Ale, a beer brand produced by Big Rock Brewery
    Big Rock Brewery
    The Big Rock Brewery is a craft brewery located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.-History:The brewery was founded in 1985 by Ed McNally.A lawyer by trade, Ed McNally was representing a group of barley growers in a legal action against the Alberta Wheat Board in the 1980s...

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