{{wiktionary|skipper}} '''Skipper''' or '''skippers''' may refer to: {{TOC right}}
== 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 * Floyd B. Olson (1891–1936), American politician and lawyer * 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'' * "Skipper" (''The Bill''), 1987 TV episode * "Skipper" (''Red Dwarf''), 2017 TV episode
== 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'', 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 * ''Skipper'', an oil tanker subject to the United States seizure of the oil tanker ''Skipper''
== See also == * Skip (disambiguation)
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