Skipper Explained

Skipper or skippers may refer to:

Rank

• Skipper (boating), a person who has command of a vessel
• Skipper (rank), a former warrant rank in the British Royal Naval Reserve
• The leader of a Sea Scouts (Boy Scouts of America) troop

Sports

• Another name for a team's manager (baseball), captain (association football), or captain (cricket)
• One who skips using a skipping rope
• Houston Skippers, a minor league ice hockey team based in Houston, Texas, that played in the 1946 season
• Skipper (cannon), the game cannon used by the Virginia Tech Hokies football team

People

• Skipper (surname)
• Skipper Badenhorst (born 1978), South African rugby union player
• Skipper Bowles (1919–1986), American politician and businessman
• Skipper Clement (c. 1484–1536), Danish merchant, captain, privateer and leader of a peasant rebellion
• Francis Gidney (1890–1928), an early leader of the Scouting movement in the United Kingdom
• Thomas Pinckney "Skipper" Heard (1898–1980), longtime athletics director of Louisiana State University
• Skipper Mullins (born c. 1945), American Taekwondo 10th degree black belt
• Skipper Roberts (baseball) (1888–1963), American Major League Baseball catcher
• Skipper Wise, American singer, songwriter, musician and entrepreneur

Places

• Skippers, Virginia, an unincorporated community
• Skippers Canyon, New Zealand

Arts and entertainment

• The Skipper, a character from the television series Gilligan's Island
• Skipper (Barbie), a doll, Barbie's younger sister
• Skipper (Madagascar), a character in Madagascar and The Penguins of Madagascar
• Kill Cruise (German title: Der Skipper), a 1990 film starring Jürgen Prochnow, Patsy Kensit and Elizabeth Hurley
• Skippers (TV programme), an Irish documentary series
• Skipper Riley, a character in the movie Planes

Animals

• Skipper (butterfly), a family of butterflies
• Another name for the European sprat, a fish

Other uses

• AGM-123 Skipper II, a short-range laser-guided missile
• AMT Skipper, a semi-automatic pistol
• USS Skipper (AMc-104), a U.S. Navy minesweeper
• Beechcraft Skipper, a model of aircraft
• Skippers Aviation, a charter airline based in Osborne Park, a suburb of Perth, Australia
• Skippers Seafood & Chowder House, a chain of independently owned and operated restaurants
• Skipper (computer software), a visualization tool and code generator for PHP ORM frameworks

See also

• Skip (disambiguation)