Gopher (disambiguation) explained

A gopher, also known as a "pocket gopher" (family Geomyidae), is a burrowing rodent native to North America and Central America.

Gopher may also refer to:

Nature

• Some species of ground squirrels (tribe Marmotini) of North America, particularly those formerly classified as Spermophilus, are informally referred to as "gophers"
• Gopher snake – common name of several species of genus Pituophis endemic to west or southwest of North America
• Gopher tortoise (genus Gopherus), distributed in North America
• Gopher wood, of unclear meaning, mentioned in the Bible as the building material for Noah's ark
• Gopher Plant or Paper Spurge (Euphorbia lathyris)

Entertainment

• Gophers!, a British children's television programme
• "Gopher", real name Burl Smith, a character on TV show The Love Boat
• Gopher (Winnie the Pooh), a character in Walt Disney's Winnie the Pooh franchise
• Gordon the Gopher, an English puppet gopher who first appeared on Children's BBC (CBBC) between 1985 and 1987

Technology

• The SA-13 "Gopher", or 9K35 Strela-10, a Soviet surface-to-air missile system
• Gopher (protocol), an early distributed hypertext protocol
• Go gopher, a mascot of Go programming language
• Slang term for a mobility scooter

Other

• Minnesota, the "Gopher State"
• Minnesota Golden Gophers, University of Minnesota sports teams
• Gopher (train), a passenger train operated by the Great Northern Railway, USA
• Gopher (video game), an Atari 2600 game
• Gofer, also spelled "gopher", an errand-runner
• Gopher Gang, early 20th-century New York street gang

See also

• Gofer (disambiguation)
• Gaufre, French term for a flat cake similar to waffles