# Skyhook

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**Skyhook**, **sky hook** or **skyhooks** may refer to:

## Fiction

- *[Sky Hook](/source/Sky_Hook)*, a Hugo Award–nominated science fiction fanzine
- [*Sky Hook* (film)](/source/Sky_Hook_(film)), a 1999 Yugoslavian film
- 'Skyhooks' and 'Skyhooks II', parts 1 and 8, respectively, of the Adventure Time [Elements miniseries](/source/Elements_(miniseries)#Episodes)
- 'Sky hook', a "non-existent" item commonly requested in a construction industry [fool's errand](/source/Fool's_errand)
- Sky-Hook, the player's melee weapon in the 2013 video game *[BioShock Infinite](/source/BioShock_Infinite)*

## Music

- "Skyhook", a song by Dance Gavin Dance from their 2008 album *[Dance Gavin Dance](/source/Dance_Gavin_Dance_(album))*
- [Skyhooks (band)](/source/Skyhooks_(band)), an Australian rock band

## Science

- [Skyhook (concept)](/source/Skyhook_(concept)), an explanation of design complexity that does not build on lower, simpler layers

## Sports

- [Skyhook (boarding)](/source/Skyhook_(boarding)), a binding used in skateboarding and related sports
- [Skyhook (climbing)](/source/Skyhook_(climbing)), a hook used in technical climbing
- [Skyhook (skydiving)](/source/Skyhook_(skydiving)), a device for quickly extracting reserve parachutes
- [Skyhook (tennis)](/source/Skyhook_(tennis)), a version of the overhead smash
- [Hook shot](/source/Hook_shot), variant, the signature shot of Basketball Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

## Technology

- [Skyhook (cable)](/source/Skyhook_(cable)), a hypothetical device used to lift an object on a long cable hanging from the sky
- [Skyhook (skydiving)](/source/Skyhook_(skydiving)), a type of main-assisted reserve parachute deployment system
- [Skyhook (structure)](/source/Skyhook_(structure)), a space elevator concept
- [Skyhook balloon](/source/Skyhook_balloon), a type of unmanned balloon used by the United States Navy in the late 1940s and in the 1950s for atmospheric research
- [SkyHook JHL-40](/source/SkyHook_JHL-40), an experimental combination airship/helicopter in development by Boeing
- [Skyhook theory](/source/Skyhook_theory), a theory used in some automobile suspensions
- [Skyhook Wireless](/source/Skyhook_Wireless), a technology company that invented hybrid location positioning
- [Airco DH.6](/source/Airco_DH.6), nicknamed Skyhook, an early (1916) *ab initio* trainer aircraft
- [Australian Autogyro Skyhook](/source/Australian_Autogyro_Skyhook), also known as the Minty Skyhook Mini Chopper
- [Cessna CH-1 Skyhook](/source/Cessna_CH-1_Skyhook), a helicopter produced in the early 1960s
- [Fulton surface-to-air recovery system](/source/Fulton_surface-to-air_recovery_system), nicknamed Skyhook, a retrieval method by which a flying aircraft picks up a payload
- a system used to launch and recover parasite planes from airships; see [Curtiss F9C Sparrowhawk](/source/Curtiss_F9C_Sparrowhawk)

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