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giant In folklore, giants (from Ancient Greek: ''wiktionary:gigas, gigas'', cognate wiktionary:giga-, giga-) are beings of humanoid appearance, but are at times prodigious in size and strength or bear an otherwise notable appearance. The word ''gia ...
is a being of human appearance, sometimes of prodigious size and strength, common in folklore. Giant(s) or The Giant(s) may also refer to:


Mythology and religion

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Giants (Greek mythology) In Greek mythology, Greek and Roman mythology, the Giants, also called Gigantes (Ancient Greek, Greek: Γίγαντες, ''wiktionary:gigantes, Gígantes'', Γίγας, ''wiktionary:gigas, Gígas''), were a race of great strength and aggression, ...
* Jötunn, a Germanic term often translated as 'giant' * Giants (Welsh folklore) * Giants (esotericism) * Nephilim, a Hebrew term loosely translated as 'giants' in some Bibles *
List of giants in mythology and folklore This is a list of Giant, giants and Giantess, giantesses from mythology and folklore; it does not include giants from modern fantasy fiction or role-playing games (for those, see list of species in fantasy fiction). Abrahamic religions & Religion ...


Arts and entertainment


Fictional characters

* Giants (Marvel Comics), a fictional race of people * Giant (''Dungeons & Dragons''), 1974, a type of fictional character * Judge Giant, two fictional characters in the 1977 ''Judge Dredd'' comic strip * The Giant (''Twin Peaks''), an inhabitant of The Black Lodge in the 1990s television series * Lily Duncan, also known as "Princess Giant", from the 1999 television series ''Mona the Vampire''


Theatre and film

* ''The Giant'' (1938 film), a black-and-white Japanese film * ''Giant'' (1956 film), a film adaptation of Ferber's novel * ''Giant'' (2009 film), a Uruguayan film * ''The Giants'' (2011 film), a Belgium film * ''The Giant'' (2016 film), a Swedish film * ''Giant'' (2017 film), a Basque-language Spanish film * ''The Giant'' (2019 film), a French-American film * ''Giant'' (play), a 2024 play by Mark Rosenblatt, directed by Nicholas Hytner


Games

*'' Giants: Citizen Kabuto'', a 2000 third-person shooter game *'' Skylanders: Giants'', a 2012 beat-em-up game


Literature and periodicals

* ''The Giant'', an 1871 novel by William Sewell, edited by Elizabeth Missing Sewell * ''The Giants'', a 1905 novel by Cora Baggerly Older * ''The Giant'', a 1951 novel by Frederick Manfred * ''Giant'', a 1952 novel by Edna Ferber * ''The Giant'', a 1954 children's novel by William Pène du Bois * '' The Giants'' (), a 1973 novel by J. M. G. Le Clézio * ''Giants'' (series), a 1977 science fiction series by James P. Hogan * " giANTS", a 1979 short story by Edward Bryant * ''Giants'' (anthology), a 1985 short story collection edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh, the fifth volume in their ''Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy'' series * ''Giant'' (magazine), a 2004 American urban music magazine


Music


Albums

* ''Giant'' (Buddy Holly album), 1969 * ''Giants'' (Dizzy Gillespie album), 1971 * ''The Giant'' (Dizzy Gillespie album), 1973 * ''The Giants'' (album), by Oscar Peterson, Joe Pass, and Ray Brown, 1974 * ''Giant'' (The Woodentops album), 1986 * ''Giant'' (Herman Düne album) or the title song, 2006 * ''Giants'' (Chicane album) or the title song, 2010 * ''Giants'' (Evan Craft album) or the title song, 2012 * ''The Giant'' (Ahab album) or the title song, 2012 * ''Giants'' (The Stranglers album) or the title song, 2012 * ''Giants'' (Andreya Triana album) or the title song, 2015 * ''Giants'', by Daniel Powter, 2018 * ''Giant'' (Stray Kids album), 2024


Songs

* "Giant", by Gentle Giant from '' Gentle Giant'', 1970 * "Giant", by Stan Rogers from '' Fogarty's Cove'', 1977 * "Giant", by from '' Soul Mining'', 1983 * "Giant", by the Matthew Good Band from '' Beautiful Midnight'', 1999 * "Giant", by Nebula from '' Charged'', 2001 * "Giant", by Vampire Weekend from '' Contra'', 2010 * "Giant", by Funeral Party from '' The Golden Age of Knowhere'', 2011 * "Giant", by Banks & Steelz from '' Anything But Words'', 2016 * "Giant" (Calvin Harris and Rag'n'Bone Man song), 2019 * "Giant", by Yuqi from '' A Page'', 2021 * "Giant", by Stray Kids from ''
Giant In folklore, giants (from Ancient Greek: ''wiktionary:gigas, gigas'', cognate wiktionary:giga-, giga-) are beings of humanoid appearance, but are at times prodigious in size and strength or bear an otherwise notable appearance. The word ''gia ...
'', 2024 * "Giants" (Bear Hands song), 2013 * "Giants" (Dermot Kennedy song), 2020 * "Giants", by Imagine Dragons from '' Mercury – Act 1'', 2021 * "Giants", by Josh Osho, 2012 * "Giants" (Lights song), 2017 * "Giants", by One Ok Rock from '' Eye of the Storm'', 2019 * "Giants", by Scale the Summit from '' Carving Desert Canyons'', 2009 * "Giants", by Sponge from '' Rotting Piñata'', 1994 * "Giants" (Take That song), 2017 * "Giants", by True Damage, a virtual hip-hop group featuring
Becky G Rebbeca Marie Gomez (born March 2, 1997), known professionally as Becky G, is an American singer and actress. Born and raised in Inglewood, California, she first gained recognition in 2011 for her cover version, cover versions of popular song ...
, 2019 * "Giants", by X Ambassadors from ''The Reason''


Other uses in music

* ''The Giant'' (opera), a c. 1900 opera by Sergei Prokofiev * Giant Records (independent), formed under 1987 Dutch East India Trading * Giant (band), a 1987 American rock band * Giant Records (Warner), 1990, a Swedish branch of Warner Music Group * ''Giant'' (musical), a 2009 musical adaptation of Ferber's novel


Television

* ''The Giants'', an unproduced 1960s ''Doctor Who'' television serial * "The Giant", a 1964 episode of '' The Mighty Hercules'' * "The Giant" (''Bagpuss''), a 1974 episode * ''The Giants'' (TV series), a 1978 Hong Kong drama series * "Giants" (''Zoboomafoo''), a 1999 episode * ''Giant'' (TV series), a 2010 South Korean historical drama series * "Giant" (''Halt and Catch Fire''), a 2014 episode


Brands and enterprises

* Giant Bicycles, bicycle maker * GIANT Company Software, internet security developer * Giant Food (disambiguation) * Giant Hypermarket, a retail chain in Southeast Asia * Giant Industries, a defunct oil company and convenience store chain in the U.S. Southwest now succeeded by Speedway *Grenoble Innovation for Advanced New Technologies (GIANT), an innovation campus in Polygone Scientifique in Grenoble, France


People

* Giant Baba and Baba the Giant, two of the ring names of Japanese professional wrestler Shohei Baba (1938–1999) * André the Giant (1946–1993), French wrestler and actor * Giant Haystacks (1947–1998), a ring name of English professional wrestler Martin Austin Ruane (1946–1998) * Giant Silva, a ring name of Brazilian basketball player, mixed martial arts fighter, and wrestler Paulo César da Silva (born 1963) * Giant González, a ring name of Argentine professional wrestler Jorge González (1966–2010) * The Giant (wrestler) (born 1972), a ring name of American wrestler Paul Wight * Paulo da Silva (born 1980), Paraguayan football player nicknamed "Giant" * Ryan Wedding (born 1981), Canadian drug trafficker nicknamed "Giant"


Places in the United States

* Giant, Richmond, California, a former unincorporated community * Giant Forest, Sequoia National Park, California * Giant Rock, Mohave Desert, California * Giant Springs, near Great Falls, Montana * Giant Mountain, New York * Giant Geyser, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming


Sports


Teams


Asia

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Lotte Giants The Lotte Giants () are a South Korean professional baseball, professional baseball team based in Busan. They are a member of the KBO League. The Lotte Giants are owned by Lotte Corporation. From 1982 through 1985, they played at Gudeok Baseball ...
, a South Korean baseball team *
Yomiuri Giants The are a Japanese professional baseball team competing in Nippon Professional Baseball's Central League. Based in Bunkyo, Tokyo, they are one of two professional baseball teams based in Tokyo, the other being the Tokyo Yakult Swallows. They h ...
, a Japanese baseball team


Australia

* Gold Coast-Tweed Giants, a rugby league team * Goldfields Giants, a State Basketball League team * Greater Western Sydney Giants, an Australian Football League team nicknamed the "Giants"


Europe

* Antwerp Giants, a Belgian basketball club *
Bayer Giants Leverkusen Bayer Giants Leverkusen is a professional basketball club, part of the Bayer 04 Leverkusen, TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen sports club based in Leverkusen, Germany. It currently plays in ProB, the third division of German basketball. Based on the numbe ...
, a German basketball club * Belfast Giants, an Irish EIHL ice hockey team * Dortmund Giants, an American football club from Dortmund, Germany * Giants Bolzano, an American football club competing in the Italian Football League *
Huddersfield Giants The Huddersfield Giants are an English professional rugby league club from Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England. Huddersfield play their home games at the John Smiths Stadium and compete in Super League, the top tier of British rugby league sy ...
, an English rugby league team competing in Super League * Manchester Giants, a British Basketball League team * SG ART Giants Düsseldorf, a German basketball team


North America

* Jacksonville Giants, a minor league basketball team * Fort McMurray Giants, a baseball team in the Western Canadian Baseball League * New York Giants (disambiguation), in various sports and eras ** New York Giants, a National Football League team *
San Francisco Giants The San Francisco Giants are an American professional baseball team based in San Francisco. The Giants compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (baseball), National League (NL) National League West, West Div ...
, a Major League Baseball team ** Arizona League Giants, their AZL minor league affiliate ** San Jose Giants, their High-A minor league affiliate * Vancouver Giants, a Western Hockey League team


= Negro league baseball

= * Bacharach Giants, Atlantic City, New Jersey * Baltimore Elite Giants * Brooklyn Royal Giants * Chicago Giants *
Chicago Columbia Giants The Columbia Giants were a professional, black baseball team based in Chicago at the turn of the 20th century, prior to the Negro leagues. Founding In 1899, a group known as the Columbia Club, organized the Columbia Giants under the direction ...
* Chicago Union Giants * Chicago American Giants * Cleveland Giants * Cuban Giants, Trenton, New Jersey * Harrisburg Giants * Illinois Giants * Leland Giants, Chicago, Illinois * Lincoln Giants, New York City * Page Fence Giants, Adrian, Michigan * Philadelphia Giants * St. Louis Giants


Other uses in sports

* Giant (gymnastics), an artistic gymnastics skill * Giants Gaming, a Spanish/European eSports team


Other uses

* GIANT AntiSpyware, a software application * Giant Center, an arena in Hershey, Pennsylvania * Giant Mine, a gold mine in the Northwest Territories, Canada *Giant, a nickname for a Bank of England £1,000,000 note *Giant, callsign of Atlas Air, an airline * S-300V "Antey-300" (NATO reporting name SA-12B "Giant")


See also

* * * Giant planet, a type of planet **
Gas giant A gas giant is a giant planet composed mainly of hydrogen and helium. Jupiter and Saturn are the gas giants of the Solar System. The term "gas giant" was originally synonymous with "giant planet". However, in the 1990s, it became known that Uranu ...
, a giant planet composed primarily of hydrogen and helium ** Ice giant, a giant planet composed primarily of rock and volatiles * Giant star, a type of star * Processional giant, costumed tall figures * Eddie Carmel (1936–1972), Israeli-born entertainer known as "The Jewish Giant" and "The Happy Giant" * Project Riese (German for "giant"), the code name for a construction project of Nazi Germany (1943–45) * Geant (disambiguation) {{disambiguation, geo