Rover may refer to:

People

Name

* Constance Rover (1910–2005), English historian * Jolanda de Rover (born 1963), Dutch swimmer * Rover Thomas (c. 1920–1998), Indigenous Australian artist

Stage name

* Rover (musician), French singer-songwriter and musician, born Timothée Régnier in 1979

Places

* Rover, Arkansas, US * Rover, Missouri, US * Rover, West Virginia, US * Røver Anchorage, Bouvet Island, Norway * Rover Creek, British Columbia, Canada

Arts and entertainment

Literature

* ''Rover'', the US title of '' They Came on Viking Ships'', a children's novel by Jackie French * ''The Rover'' (story paper), a British boys' story paper which started in 1922

Music

* "Rover" (BlocBoy JB song), 2018 ** "Rover 2.0", a 2018 remake by BlocBoy JB featuring 21 Savage from the mixtape '' Simi'' * "Rover" (S1mba song), 2020 viral hit by S1mba featuring DTG * "Rover" (UCLA song), a sports cheer at the University of California Los Angeles * "The Rover" (Led Zeppelin song), a song by Led Zeppelin on their 1975 double album ''Physical Graffiti'' * " The Irish Rover", an Irish folk song about a magnificent sailing ship that reaches an unfortunate end * '' The Wild Rover'', an English folk song about a rover * Rover (EP), a 2023 extended play by Kai ** Rover (Kai song)

Fiction

* Rover (robot dog), a character on ''Lunar Jim'' always helping on Jim's missions * Rover (''The Prisoner''), a fictional balloon device in the 1967 British television program ''The Prisoner'' * Rover, the main character in the novella '' Roverandom'' by J.R.R. Tolkien * Rover, the name of two vehicles with artificial intelligence, built by Marvel Comics'

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* The Rovers, an informal name for the Rovers Return Inn, a fictional pub in British soap opera ''Coronation Street''

Television

* ''Rovers'' (TV series), a British television show

Science

* Rover (space exploration), a vehicle that explores the surface of an astronomical body ** Lunar rover, a vehicle designed to move across the surface of the Moon ** Mars rover, a vehicle designed to explore the surface of Mars * ROVER, a military system that receives video images from aircraft

Sport

* Rover (ice hockey), a long-defunct ice hockey position * Rover, a position in

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Transport

Automobiles and motorcycles

Freight Rover Freight Rover was a British commercial vehicle manufacturer based in the Washwood Heath area of Birmingham, England. History Freight Rover was created as a division of the Land Rover Group of British Leyland (BL) in 1981, creating a new singl ...

(1981–1986), a commercial vehicle manufacturing division of Leyland * Land Rover Group (1981–1987), a light commercial vehicle division of Leyland * Land Rover, a brand of 4-wheel drive vehicles by the British manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover * MG Rover Group (2000–2005), a British mass-production car manufacturer, formerly the Rover Group *

Rover Company The Rover Company Limited was a British car manufacturing company originally founded in 1878, beginning car manufacturing in 1904. It primarily operated from its base in Solihull, Warwickshire. Rover also manufactured the Land Rover series from ...

(1885–1967), a British car manufacturing company, absorbed into Leyland Motor Corporation * Rover Group (1986–2000), a British car manufacturer, previously known as British Leyland * Rover Light Armoured Car, an armoured car produced in Australia during World War II * Rover (marque), British automotive marque (brand) in use from 1904 to 2005 * Rover (motorcycles), a British bicycle and motorcycle manufacturer before it began the manufacture of motor cars

Business (transport)

* Rover (ticket), a type of bus or train travel card ticket issued in the UK * Rover Coaches, an Australian bus company operating services in the Hunter Valley

Locomotives

* GWR Rover class, a class of locomotives on the Great Western Railway * ''Rover'', a GWR 3031 Class locomotive in service on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915

Watercraft

* HMS ''Rover'', the name of seven ships of the Royal Navy * ''Rover'' (barque), the American merchant ship involved in the Rover Incident of 1867 * ''Rover'' (log canoe), a Chesapeake Bay log canoe, built about 1886 * ''Rover'' (privateering ship), a ship from Nova Scotia, launched in 1800 * ''Rover'' (yacht), a luxury steam yacht built for P&O chairman, Lord Inchcape, in 1930 * Rover-class tanker, a class of ships in the Royal Fleet Auxiliary of the UK

Other uses

* ''Rover'', a common name for a doghttps://english.stackexchange.com/questions/96703/when-did-we-start-naming-our-dogs-rover-and-why * Rover, a person with no fixed abode, see wikt:rover * Rover (fish), common name for fish in the family Emmelichthyidae * Rover chair, designed by industrial designer Ron Arad * Rover Ruckus, the fourteenth FIRST Tech Challenge game * Rover Scout, a programme within Scouting in some countries for young men and women above the age range for Boy and Girl Scouts * Rover (company), a company that sells pet care services

References

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