Skipper or skippers may refer to:

Rank

Skipper (boating) A sea captain, ship's captain, captain, master, or shipmaster, is a high-grade licensed mariner who holds ultimate command and responsibility of a merchant vessel.Aragon and Messner, 2001, p.3. The captain is responsible for the safe and efficie ...

, a person who has command of a vessel * Skipper (rank), a former warrant rank in the British Royal Naval Reserve. Also informal for an officer of sergeant rank in British policing * The leader of a

Sea Scouts (Boy Scouts of America) Sea Scouts is a program of the Boy Scouts of America for young men and women ages 14 (or 13 and have completed the eighth grade) through 20. Aims and principles In addition to the Scout Oath and Law, Sea Scouts also subscribe to the Sea Promis ...

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Sports

* Another name for a team's

manager (baseball) In baseball, the field manager (commonly referred to as the manager) is the equivalent of a head coach who is responsible for overseeing and making final decisions on all aspects of on-field team strategy, lineup selection, training and instruc ...

captain (association football) The team captain of an association football team, sometimes known as the skipper, is a team member chosen to be the on-pitch leader of the team; they are often one of the older or more experienced members of the squad, or a player that can heav ...

, or captain (cricket) * One who skips using a

skipping rope A skipping rope (British English) or jump rope (American English) is a tool used in the sport of skipping/jump rope where one or more participants jump over a rope swung so that it passes under their feet and over their heads. There are multi ...

* 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) * Rudolf Scheepers "Skipper" Badenhorst (born 1978), South African rugby union player * Hargrove "Skipper" Bowles (1919–1986), American politician and businessman * Klemen Andersen "Skipper Clement" (c. 1484–1536), Danish merchant, captain, privateer and leader of a peasant rebellion * Francis "Skipper" 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 * Lewis "Skipper" Mullins (born c. 1945), American Taekwondo 10th degree black belt * Clarence "Skipper" Roberts (1888–1963), American Major League Baseball catcher *

Skipper Wise Bernard Louis "Skipper" Wise (born March 6, 1957) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and entrepreneur born in Los Angeles. In 1983, he fronted the contemporary jazz group, Windows, which delivered four top 10 radio records punctuated ...

, American singer, songwriter, musician and entrepreneur

Places

Skippers, Virginia Skippers is an unincorporated community in Greensville County, Virginia, United States. The community is located along US 301 and Virginia Secondary Route 629 east of Exit 4 along Interstate 95. It is also located along the CSX North End Subdivi ...

, an unincorporated community *

Skippers Canyon Skippers Canyon is a historic and scenic gorge, some 22 kilometres in length, several kilometres north of Queenstown, New Zealand. Today accessed from Queenstown via the same road that leads to the Coronet Peak skifield, Skippers Canyon is carved ...

, New Zealand

Arts and entertainment

The Skipper The Skipper is the title and nickname of Jonas Grumby, a fictional character from the 1960s situation comedy '' Gilligan's Island''. Played by Alan Hale Jr., the Skipper (the character's actual name was rarely mentioned after the show's pilot epis ...

, a character from the television series ''Gilligan's Island'' *

Skipper (Barbie) Skipper Roberts is a doll created by Mattel in 1964 to be Barbie's younger sister. Mattel redesigned Skipper in 2009, adding a colored streak to her hair and giving her a tech-savvy personality. According to her fictional biography, Skipper call ...

, a doll, Barbie's younger sister *

Skipper (Madagascar) This is a list of characters from the DreamWorks Animation franchise of ''Madagascar'' films, and the TV shows. Concept and creation Tom McGrath explained in an interview that the intention of ''Madagascar'' was not to take a political stance ...

, a character in ''Madagascar'' and ''The Penguins of Madagascar'' * ''

Kill Cruise ''Kill Cruise'' (German title ''Der Skipper'') is a 1990 film directed by Peter Keglevic and starring Jürgen Prochnow, Patsy Kensit, and Elizabeth Hurley. Plot summary The story begins at sea when the unnamed Skipper (Prochnow) of the sailboat B ...

'' (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''

Animals

Skipper (butterfly) Skippers are a family of the Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies) named the Hesperiidae. Being diurnal, they are generally called butterflies. They were previously placed in a separate superfamily, Hesperioidea; however, the most recent taxonomy ...

, a family of butterflies * Another name for the

European sprat The European sprat (''Sprattus sprattus''), also known as bristling, brisling, garvie, garvock, Russian sardine, russlet, skipper or whitebait, is a species of small marine fish in the herring family Clupeidae. Found in European waters, it has si ...

, a fish * The larvae of Piophila casei are sometimes called "cheese skippers" or "ham skippers"

Aviation

Beechcraft Skipper The Beechcraft Model 77 Skipper is a two-seat, fixed tricycle gear general aviation airplane, originally designed for flight training but also used for touring and personal flying.Montgomery, M.R. and Gerald Foster: ''A Field Guide to Airplan ...

, a model of aircraft *

Skippers Aviation Skippers Aviation is a small regional airline based out of Perth Airport that specialises in charter flights for companies with fly-in fly-out workers. They also operate flights for the mining industry in Western Australia, as well as some sch ...

, a charter airline based in Osborne Park, a suburb of Perth, Australia

Other uses

* AGM-123 Skipper II, a short-range laser-guided missile * AMT Skipper, a semi-automatic pistol * USS ''Skipper'' (AMc-104), a U.S. Navy minesweeper * 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