Gridiron may refer to:
Sports and games
* Gridiron, the playing field for
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''Gridiron'' (card game), a football-themed collectible card game
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GridIron Master
''GridIron Master'' is a wooden board game invented by Brett Proud, Craig Proud, Paul Morin and Jordan Sampson. It was first published by Canadian company ''PHI Sports Games'' in 2007. It combines the strategic elements of gridiron football ( Am ...
'', a board game
Organizations
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Gridiron (secret society)
Gridiron Secret Society is a collegiate secret society at the University of Georgia. Membership in Gridiron has been called "the highest honor a male student may receive on the University of Georgia campus."
History
The Gridiron Secret Society ...
, at the University of Georgia
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Gridiron Club
The Gridiron Club is the oldest and most selective journalistic organization in Washington, D.C.
History
:"an elitist social club of sixty print journalists" — Hedrick Smith, ''Power Game: How Washington Works'' February 1988 Random House ...
, a journalistic organization in Washington, DC, USA
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The Gridiron Club (Oxford University)
The Gridiron Club, popularly called The Grid, is a dining club open to male and female students at the University of Oxford.
History
The club was founded in 1884 and, as with other beefsteak clubs of the 18th and 19th centuries, the traditio ...
, an undergraduate club founded in 1884
Arts and entertainment
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''Gridiron'' (novel), a 1995 science fiction novel
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Captain Grid-Iron
This is an alphabetical list of '' G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero'' characters who are members of the G.I. Joe Team. For Cobra characters, see '' List of Cobra characters''.
Ace
Ace is the G.I. Joe Team's original fighter pilot. His real nam ...
, a ''G.I. Joe'' character
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Grid Iron Theatre Company
Grid Iron Theatre Company is a Scottish theatre company, one of the world's leading specialists in site-specific theatre although they also produce for the stage.
Over the 27 years the company has won 31 awards and another 20 nominations across ...
, in Scotland
Other uses
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Gridiron (cooking)
A gridiron is a metal :wikt:grate, grate with parallel bars typically used for grilling foods. Some designs involve two such grates hinged to fold together, securely holding food while grilling over an open flame.
Development
Early examples of ...
, a type of grill
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Gridiron, Sonora
Gridiron was a steamboat landing and woodyard on the lower Colorado River in Sonora state of northwestern Mexico,.
It supplied fuel wood to heat the steam boilers of the shipping steamboats on the Colorado River from 1854 to the late 1870s.
Geo ...
, a steamboat landing in Mexico
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Gridiron plan
In urban planning, the grid plan, grid street plan, or gridiron plan is a type of city plan in which streets run at Angle#Types of angles, right angles to each other, forming a wikt:grid, grid.
Two inherent characteristics of the grid plan, fr ...
, in urban planning
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Gridiron deck
A fly system, or theatrical rigging system, is a system of ropes, pulleys, counterweights and related devices within a theater (structure), theater that enables a stage crew to fly (hoist) quickly, quietly and safely components such as curtains, ...
, a working surface above a theater stage
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Gridiron pendulum
A gridiron pendulum was a temperature-compensated clock pendulum invented by British clockmaker John Harrison around 1726. It was used in precision clocks. In ordinary clock pendulums, the pendulum rod expands and contracts with changes in temper ...
, a clock part
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Operation Flight Gridiron, a World War II rescue operation
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