Skipjack may refer to:

Zoology

Skipjack tuna The skipjack tuna (''Katsuwonus pelamis'') is a medium-sized perciform fish in the tuna family, Scombridae. It is otherwise known as the balaya (Sri Lanka), bakulan/kayu (North Borneo), tongkol/aya (Malay Peninsula/Indonesia), aku (Hawaii), cak ...

, a fish of the family ''Scombridae'' * A common name for

Elateridae Elateridae or click beetles (or "typical click beetles" to distinguish them from the related families Cerophytidae and Eucnemidae, which are also capable of clicking) are a family of beetles. Other names include elaters, snapping beetles, sp ...

(click beetles) * Skipjack shad, the fish species, ''Alosa chrysochloris'' * Common name for ''

Pseudocaranx georgianus Silver trevally, ''Pseudocaranx georgianus'', (also known as skippy, skipjack trevally and silver bream) is a jack of the family Carangidae found around the coast of Australia and New Zealand. Description The fish can grow to a length of and w ...

'', also known as silver trevally or skippy.

Maritime

* Skipjack 15, an American sailing dinghy design * HMS ''Skipjack'', Royal Navy, Halcyon class minesweeper, sunk by bombs in 1940 *

Skipjack (boat) The skipjack is a traditional fishing boat used on the Chesapeake Bay for oyster dredging. It is a sailboat which succeeded the bugeye as the chief oystering boat on the bay, and it remains in service due to laws restricting the use of powerboa ...

, a type of fishing boat used on the Chesapeake Bay, USA * USS ''Skipjack'', the name of three United States Navy submarines * ''Skipjack'' class submarine, a class of United States Navy nuclear submarines

In computing

Skipjack (cipher) In cryptography, Skipjack is a block cipher—an algorithm In mathematics and computer science, an algorithm () is a finite sequence of rigorous instructions, typically used to solve a class of specific problems or to perform a compu ...

, a block cipher, designed by the US National Security Agency * Skipjack, the code name for Linspire 6.0, a Linux distribution * Skipjack, the code name for the VAX 8550 computer system, introduced by Digital Equipment Corporation in 1986

Other

Baltimore Skipjacks The Baltimore Skipjacks were a minor league professional ice hockey team from Baltimore, Maryland, United States. The Skipjacks originated in 1979, and played as the Baltimore Clippers in the Eastern Hockey League for two seasons. The team wa ...

, former professional ice hockey team * Skipjack Wind Farm, Offshore Delaware {{disambiguation, fish Animal common name disambiguation pages