Grit, Grits, or Gritty may refer to:

Food

Grit (grain) Grit (going back to Old English ''grytt'' or ''grytta'' or ''gryttes''The ''OED'' gives the following earliest references: ''Epinal Gloss''. 823 Pullis, grytt. c1000 ÆLFRIC ''Gloss.'' in Wr.-Wülcker 141/20 ''Apludes'' uel ''cantabra,'' hwæte g ...

, bran, chaff, mill-dust or coarse oatmeal *

Grits Grits (stylized as GRITS) is an American Christian hip hop group from Nashville, Tennessee. Their name is an acronym, which stands for "Grammatical Revolution In the Spirit". GRITS is made up of Stacey "Coffee" Jones and Teron "Bonafide" Carter ...

, a corn-based food common in the Southern United States

Minerals

* Grit, winter pavement-treatment minerals deployed in

grit bin A grit bin, salt bin or sand bin is an item of street furniture, commonly found in countries where freezing temperatures and snowfall occur, which holds a mixture of salt and grit that is spread over roads if they have snow or ice on them. Sprea ...

s * Grit, or

gastrolith A gastrolith, also called a stomach stone or gizzard stone, is a rock held inside a gastrointestinal tract. Gastroliths in some species are retained in the muscular gizzard and used to grind food in animals lacking suitable grinding teeth. In ...

, swallowed abrasive substances with roles in digestion *

Gritstone Gritstone or grit is a hard, coarse-grained, siliceous sandstone. This term is especially applied to such sandstones that are quarried for building material. British gritstone was used for millstones to mill flour, to grind wood into pulp for ...

, category of sedimentary rock *

Grit (supplement) Grit is a material eaten by birds to aid in their diets and digestion. Wild birds find grit naturally while foraging, and farmers can purchase grit for their domestic fowl. There are two forms: soluble grit, which dissolves in a bird's digestive sy ...

, calcium source and digestion aid in birds

Abrasive technologies

* Grit, one of the byproducts of grinding, an abrasive machining process * Grit removal, the removal of grit, the coarse abrasive material in untreated sewage * Grit sizes, fineness/coarseness classification of sandpaper grit, and compares the CAMI and "P" designations with the average grit size in micrometres (μm)

Art and entertainment

* ''Grit'' (film), a 1924 American silent film starring Clara Bow * ''Grit'' (play), a 2023 Nigerian play by

Obari Gomba Obari Gomba is a Nigerian writer and academic. In 2023, he won the Nigeria Prize for Literature for his work ''Grit''. Career Gomba is an associate dean of Humanities and teaches Literary and Creative Writing at the University of Port Harcourt. ...

* ''Grit'' (newspaper), a magazine, formerly a weekly newspaper * Grit (Transformers), a ''Micromasters'' Decepticon - Constructor Squad character * ''Grit'' (TV network), an American digital multicast television network * ''Grit'' (Martyn Bennett album), a 2003 album by Martyn Bennett * ''Grit'' (Madrugada album), a 2002 album by Norwegian band Madrugada *

Grits (duo) Grits (stylized as GRITS) is an American Christian hip hop group from Nashville, Tennessee. Their name is an acronym, which stands for "Grammatical Revolution In the Spirit". GRITS is made up of Stacey "Coffee" Jones and Teron "Bonafide" Carter ...

, a hip hop duo from the United States

Places

Grit, Texas Grit is an unincorporated farming and ranching community established ca.1889 in Mason County, in the U.S. state of Texas. The initial settlers considered naming the community after Congressional Medal of Honor recipient Frederick Funston, but ...

, USA * Grit, Virginia, USA

Other uses

Grit (given name) Grit is a given name, derived as a short for "Margaret". Notable people with the name include: * Grit Boettcher (born 1938), German actress * Grit Breuer (born 1972), German athlete * Grit Haid (1900–1938), Austrian stage and film actress * Grit H ...

, short for "Margaret" *

Diederik Grit Diederik Christoph Grit (1949–2012) was a Dutch translator and translation scholar. Life Born in Groningen on 22 March 1949, Grit moved to Friesland in his early teens and was educated in the Drachtster Lyceum. He went on to study Dutch at the ...

(1949–2012), Dutch translator and translation scholar *

Grit (personality trait) In psychology, grit is a positive, non-cognitive trait based on a person's perseverance of effort combined with their passion for a particular long-term goal or end state (a powerful motivation to achieve an objective). This perseverance of effor ...

, a positive non-cognitive trait * GRIT, the

RICS (gene) Rho GTPase-activating protein 32 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ''RICS'' gene. RICS has two known isoforms, RICS that are expressed primarily at neurite growth cones, and at the post synaptic membranes, and PX-RICS which is more w ...

, a protein in humans * Grits, a former pet of US president Jimmy Carter *

Gritty (mascot) Gritty is the official mascot for the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League (NHL). He is a furry orange creature with googly eyes who wears Flyers gear. Gritty has been compared to the Phillie Phanatic, the mascot for the Philadelp ...

, NHL mascot of the Philadelphia Flyers since 2018 *

Clear Grits Clear Grits were reformers in the Canada West district of the Province of Canada, a British colony that is now the Province of Ontario, Canada. Their name is said to have been given by George Brown, who said that only those were wanted in the p ...

, 19th-century political movement *

Liberal Party of Canada The Liberal Party of Canada (LPC; , ) is a federal political party in Canada. The party espouses the principles of liberalism,McCall, Christina; Stephen Clarkson"Liberal Party". ''The Canadian Encyclopedia''. and generally sits at the Centrism, ...