# Gator

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**Gator** is an abbreviation for [alligator](/source/Alligator).

**Gator** may also refer to:

## People nicknamed Gator

- [Mike Greenwell](/source/Mike_Greenwell) (1963–2025), American former Major League Baseball player nicknamed "The Gator"
- [Ron Guidry](/source/Ron_Guidry) (born 1950), former Major League Baseball pitcher
- [Gator Hoskins](/source/Gator_Hoskins) (born 1991), American former football player
- [Willis Jackson (saxophonist)](/source/Willis_Jackson_(saxophonist)) (1932–1987), American jazz saxophonist
- [Mark Rogowski](/source/Mark_Rogowski) (born 1966), professional skateboarder convicted of a 1991 murder

## Arts, entertainment, and media

### Fictional characters

- Gator, a [recurring character in *Thomas & Friends*](/source/Railway_engines_(Thomas_%26_Friends)#Gator)
- [Gabby Gator](/source/Gabby_Gator), an animated cartoon character, foe of Woody Woodpecker
- Wally Gator, the titular character of "[Wally Gator](/source/Wally_Gator)", one of the segments from *The Hanna-Barbera New Cartoon Series*

### Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

- [*Gator* (film)](/source/Gator_(film)), a 1976 action movie starring and directed by Burt Reynolds
- [Gator (game)](/source/Gator_(game)), a swimming pool game
- "Gator", an instrumental track on the 1989 single "[Homely Girl](/source/Homely_Girl)" by UB40
- [KNGT](/source/KNGT), a radio station branded "Gator 99.5", licensed to Lake Charles, Louisiana

## Military

- [AN/TPS-80 Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar](/source/AN/TPS-80_Ground/Air_Task_Oriented_Radar) (G/ATOR), a radar system in development by the United States Marine Corps
- [Landing Vehicle Tracked](/source/Landing_Vehicle_Tracked) used Amphibious warfare, popularly known as "gators" or "gator freighters"
- [Boeing T-43](/source/Boeing_T-43), informally known as the Gator, modified Boeing 737 airplanes used for training navigators
- [GATOR mine system](/source/GATOR_mine_system), an American system of air-dropped anti-tank and anti-personnel mines developed in the 1980s

## Sports

- Gator, a defensive technique in volleyball popularized by Danny Kinda - see [Volleyball jargon](/source/Volleyball_jargon)
- Gators, the athletics teams of [St. Amant High School](/source/St._Amant_High_School), Ascension Parish, Louisiana
- Gators, the athletics teams of [Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart](/source/Stone_Ridge_School_of_the_Sacred_Heart), a private school in Bethesda, Maryland
- Gators, the athletics teams of [Chapin School](/source/Chapin_School), an all-girls day school in Manhattan, New York
- Gators, the athletics teams of [Donald A Wilson Secondary School](/source/Donald_A_Wilson_Secondary_School), Whitby, Ontario, Canada
- Gators, the athletics teams of [Lakeshore Catholic High School](/source/Lakeshore_Catholic_High_School), Port Colborne, Ontario
- Gators, the athletics teams of [Crystal Lake South High School](/source/Crystal_Lake_South_High_School), Illinois
- [Florida Gators](/source/Florida_Gators), the University of Florida's athletic teams
- [San Francisco State Gators](/source/San_Francisco_State_Gators), the athletics teams of San Francisco State University
- [Wuhan Gators](/source/Wuhan_Gators), a professional arena football team based in Wuhan, China

## Other uses

- [Claria Corporation](/source/Claria_Corporation), formerly Gator Corporation, an Internet advertising company known for its *Gator* spyware
- [John Deere Gator](/source/John_Deere_Gator), a small utility vehicle
- [Gator (facility)](/source/Gator_(facility)), a low-background counting facility at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy
- Gatorz Eyewear, a [sunglasses](/source/Sunglasses) brand

## See also

- [Gaiter](/source/Gaiter), a garment for the legs
- [Gater (disambiguation)](/source/Gater_(disambiguation))
- [Alligator (disambiguation)](/source/Alligator_(disambiguation))
- [Croc (disambiguation)](/source/Croc_(disambiguation))

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