# Skipper

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'''Skipper''' or '''skippers''' may refer to:
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== Rank ==
* [Skipper (boating)](/source/Skipper_(boating)), a person who has command of a vessel
* [Skipper (rank)](/source/Skipper_(rank)), a former warrant rank in the British Royal Naval Reserve
* The leader of a [Sea Scouts (Boy Scouts of America)](/source/Sea_Scouts_(Boy_Scouts_of_America)) troop

== Sports ==
* Another name for a team's [manager (baseball)](/source/manager_(baseball)), [captain (association football)](/source/captain_(association_football)), or [captain (cricket)](/source/captain_(cricket))
* One who skips using a [skipping rope](/source/skipping_rope)
* [Houston Skippers](/source/Houston_Skippers), a minor league ice hockey team based in Houston, Texas, that played in the 1946 season
* [Skipper (cannon)](/source/Skipper_(cannon)), the game cannon used by the Virginia Tech Hokies football team

== People ==
* [Skipper (surname)](/source/Skipper_(surname))
* [Skipper Badenhorst](/source/Skipper_Badenhorst) (born 1978), South African rugby union player
* [Skipper Bowles](/source/Skipper_Bowles) (1919–1986), American politician and businessman
* [Skipper Clement](/source/Skipper_Clement) (c. 1484–1536), Danish merchant, captain, privateer and leader of a peasant rebellion
* [Francis Gidney](/source/Francis_Gidney) (1890–1928), an early leader of the Scouting movement in the United Kingdom
* [Thomas Pinckney "Skipper" Heard](/source/Thomas_Pinckney_%22Skipper%22_Heard) (1898–1980), longtime athletics director of Louisiana State University
* [Skipper Mullins](/source/Skipper_Mullins) (born c. 1945), American taekwondo 10th degree black belt
* [Floyd B. Olson](/source/Floyd_B._Olson) (1891–1936), American politician and lawyer
* [Skipper Roberts (baseball)](/source/Skipper_Roberts_(baseball)) (1888–1963), American Major League Baseball catcher
* [Skipper Wise](/source/Skipper_Wise), American singer, songwriter, musician and entrepreneur

== Places ==
* [Skippers, Virginia](/source/Skippers%2C_Virginia), an unincorporated community
* [Skippers Canyon](/source/Skippers_Canyon), New Zealand

== Arts and entertainment ==
* [The Skipper](/source/The_Skipper), a character from the television series ''Gilligan's Island''
* [Skipper (Barbie)](/source/Skipper_(Barbie)), a doll, Barbie's younger sister
* [Skipper (Madagascar)](/source/Skipper_(Madagascar)), a character in ''Madagascar'' and ''The Penguins of Madagascar''
* ''[Kill Cruise](/source/Kill_Cruise)'' (German title: ''Der Skipper''), a 1990 film starring Jürgen Prochnow, Patsy Kensit and Elizabeth Hurley
* [''Skippers'' (TV programme)](/source/Skippers_(TV_programme)), an Irish documentary series
* Skipper Riley, a character in the movie ''[Planes](/source/Planes_(film))''
* ["Skipper" (''The Bill'')](/source/Skipper_(The_Bill)), 1987 TV episode
* ["Skipper" (''Red Dwarf'')](/source/Skipper_(Red_Dwarf)), 2017 TV episode

== Animals ==
* [Skipper (butterfly)](/source/Skipper_(butterfly)), a family of butterflies
* Another name for the [European sprat](/source/European_sprat), a fish

== Other uses ==
* [AGM-123 Skipper II](/source/AGM-123_Skipper_II), a short-range laser-guided missile
* [AMT Skipper](/source/AMT_Skipper), a semi-automatic pistol
* [USS ''Skipper''](/source/USS_Skipper), a U.S. Navy minesweeper
* [Beechcraft Skipper](/source/Beechcraft_Skipper), a model of aircraft
* [Skippers Aviation](/source/Skippers_Aviation), a charter airline based in Osborne Park, a suburb of Perth, Australia
* [Skippers Seafood & Chowder House](/source/Skippers_Seafood_%26_Chowder_House), a chain of independently owned and operated restaurants
* [Skipper (computer software)](/source/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''](/source/United_States_naval_quarantine_during_Operation_Southern_Spear)

== See also ==
* [Skip (disambiguation)](/source/Skip_(disambiguation))

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