Ringer Explained

Ringer(s) may refer to:

Sports and games

• Ringer, in sports idiom, an impostor, especially one whose pretense is intended to gain an advantage in a competition
• Road course ringer, a non-NASCAR driver hired to race at a road course
• A game piece used for scoring in the 2007 FIRST Robotics Competition game Rack 'n Roll
• In horseshoes, a shoe that encircles the stake
• Ringer or ring taw, a marbles game played in British and World Marbles Championship

Fiction

• Ringer (comics), a Marvel Comics villain
• A member of Tolkien fandom
  • , a documentary on the subject

Film and television

• , a 1996 film starring Timothy Bottoms
• Ringer (TV series), starring Sarah Michelle Gellar

Music

• Ringer (EP), an EP by Four Tet
• "Ringer" (song), a song by Godflesh

Other

• Ringer (surname)
• Ringer Edwards (1913–2000), Australian soldier
• Bell-ringer, one who plays bells, especially church bells
• Lactated Ringer's solution, also known as Ringer's, a fluid used in medical treatment
• Intravenous sugar solution, usually glucose
• A term for an Australian stockman, in the Top End of the Northern Territory
• An ornithologist trained in bird ringing
• Ringing (telephony) or telephone ringer, an electrical device to alert a telephone subscriber to an incoming call
• A style of T-shirt

See also

• The Ringer (disambiguation)
• Dead Ringer (disambiguation)
• Wringer (disambiguation)