Skipper or skippers may refer to:
Rank
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Skipper (boating), a person who has command of a vessel
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Skipper (rank), a former warrant rank in the British Royal Naval Reserve
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The leader of a Sea Scouts (Boy Scouts of America) troop
Sports
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Another name for a team's manager (baseball), captain (association football), or captain (cricket)
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One who skips using a skipping rope
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Houston Skippers, a minor league ice hockey team based in Houston, Texas, that played in the 1946 season
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Skipper (cannon), the game cannon used by the Virginia Tech Hokies football team
People
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Skipper (surname)
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Skipper Badenhorst (born 1978), South African rugby union player
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Skipper Bowles (1919–1986), American politician and businessman
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Skipper Clement (c. 1484–1536), Danish merchant, captain, privateer and leader of a peasant rebellion
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Francis Gidney (1890–1928), an early leader of the Scouting movement in the United Kingdom
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Thomas Pinckney "Skipper" Heard (1898–1980), longtime athletics director of Louisiana State University
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Skipper Mullins (born c. 1945), American taekwondo 10th degree black belt
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Floyd B. Olson (1891–1936), American politician and lawyer
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Skipper Roberts (baseball) (1888–1963), American Major League Baseball catcher
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Skipper Wise, American singer, songwriter, musician and entrepreneur
Places
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Skippers, Virginia, an unincorporated community
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Skippers Canyon, New Zealand
Arts and entertainment
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The Skipper, a character from the television series Gilligan's Island
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Skipper (Barbie), a doll, Barbie's younger sister
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Skipper (Madagascar), a character in Madagascar and The Penguins of Madagascar
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Kill Cruise (German title: Der Skipper), a 1990 film starring Jürgen Prochnow, Patsy Kensit and Elizabeth Hurley
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Skippers (TV programme), an Irish documentary series
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Skipper Riley, a character in the movie Planes
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"Skipper" ( The Bill), 1987 TV episode
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"Skipper" ( Red Dwarf), 2017 TV episode
Animals
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Skipper (butterfly), a family of butterflies
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Another name for the European sprat, a fish
Other uses
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AGM-123 Skipper II, a short-range laser-guided missile
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AMT Skipper, a semi-automatic pistol
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USS Skipper, a U.S. Navy minesweeper
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Beechcraft Skipper, a model of aircraft
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Skippers Aviation, a charter airline based in Osborne Park, a suburb of Perth, Australia
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Skippers Seafood & Chowder House, a chain of independently owned and operated restaurants
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Skipper (computer software), a visualization tool and code generator for PHP ORM frameworks
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Skipper, an oil tanker subject to the United States seizure of the oil tanker Skipper
See also