A scorpion is a predatory arthropod animal.

Scorpion may also refer to:

Computing and technology

  • Scorpion (computer), a Russian ZX Spectrum clone computer
  • Scorpion (CPU), a Qualcomm CPU used in smart phones

Film and television

  • Scorpion (2007 film), a French film
  • Scorpion (2018 film), an Uzbek film
  • The Scorpion (film), a 1990 Egyptian drama film
  • Scorpion (TV series), an American drama series broadcast on CBS from 2014 to 2018
  • "Scorpion" (Star Trek: Voyager), a 1997 episode of Star Trek: Voyager

Gaming

  • Scorpion (solitaire), a card game
  • Scorpion (video game), a 1989 video game
  • Scorpion: Disfigured, a 2009 German computer game
  • Scorpion (Mortal Kombat), a video game character
  • Scorpion, a wrestler in the video game Saturday Night Slam Masters

Literature

  • Scorpion (publishing house), an early-1900s Russian book publisher
  • The Scorpion, a title used for one issue in 1939 by the pulp magazine The Western Raider
  • The Scorpion (novel), a 1982 novel by Zayd Mutee' Dammaj
  • Scorpion (novel), a 1985 spy thriller by Andrew Kaplan
  • Scorpions (novel), a 1988 novel by Walter Dean Myers

Comics

  • Scorpion (Marvel Comics), a number of Marvel Comics comics characters including:
  • Mac Gargan, a supervillain and frequent enemy of Spider-Man, the third Venom and a member of the Dark Avengers as the Black Spider-Man, but is back to "being" Scorpion.
  • Scorpion (Carmilla Black)/Thanasee Rappaccini, first appeared in Amazing Fantasy vol. 2 #7 and was created by Fred Van Lente and Leonard Kirk.
  • Silver Scorpion (Elizabeth Barstow) first appeared in Daring Mystery Comics #7 (April 1941).
  • Kron Stone, an enemy of Spider-Man 2099, in the Timestorm 2009–2099 alternate reality.
  • Scorpion (Atlas/Seaboard Comics), a character from former Marvel Comics publisher Martin Goodman's Atlas/Seaboard Comics
  • Scorpion, a Fawcett Comics character from Earth-S who appeared in Captain Marvel
  • Le Scorpion, a Belgian comic set in 18th-century Vatican, by Stephen Desberg and Enrico Marini
  • Scarlet Scorpion, an AC Comics character

Music

  • Scorpions (band), a German hard rock band
  • The Scorpions, a 1976 re-issue of their 1972 debut album Lonesome Crow
  • The Scorpions (London band), a British instrumental group
  • The Scorpions (Manchester band), a British beat group
  • The Scorpions, an English rock band later renamed Status Quo
  • The Scorpion (album), an album by Lou Donaldson
  • Scorpion (Drake album), a 2018 double album
  • Scorpion (Eve album) (2001)
  • "The Scorpion", a song by Megadeth from The System Has Failed

People

  • Scorpion I, Egyptian pharaoh
  • Scorpion II, Egyptian pharaoh

Military/paramilitary

Combat units

  • Scorpions (Iraq), a paramilitary Iraqi force organized by the CIA
  • Scorpions (paramilitary), a paramilitary group involved in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre
  • Scorpions (South Africa), a multidisciplinary agency that investigated and prosecuted organised crime and corruption
  • VAQ-132 or the Scorpions, a U.S. Navy aircraft squadron

Vessels

  • , or Scorpion, a Soviet Navy submarine
  • , a Confederate States Navy boat
  • , various ships of the British Royal Navy
  • , various ships of the United States Navy
  • USS Scorpion, a fictional United States Navy submarine in the 1957 novel On the Beach

Other military vehicles

  • FV101 Scorpion, British light tank
  • M56 Scorpion, unarmored American self-propelled anti-tank gun
  • Northrop F-89 Scorpion, American jet fighter
  • Rotem KW1 Scorpion, South Korean wheeled armored personnel carrier
  • Textron AirLand Scorpion, American light attack jet aircraft proposed for export

Weaponry

  • Scorpio (weapon), an ancient Greco-Roman catapult
  • Scourge, a whipping device, also called a scorpion
  • Škorpion vz. 61, a Czech submachine gun
  • CZ Scorpion Evo 3, a Czech submachine gun
  • Scorpion silent pistol, a Georgian pistol

Sports

  • Scorpion (horse), Irish Thoroughbred racehorse and sire
  • Scorpion kick (association football)
  • Scorpion kick (martial arts)
  • Sharpshooter (professional wrestling) or scorpion hold, a professional wrestling hold
  • Scorpion, a shot used in pickleball

Team/club names

  • Scorpion aerobatic team, aerobatic demonstration team of the aviation arm of the Polish Land Forces
  • Scorpions RFC, rugby club in East Africa
  • Hannover Scorpions, German ice hockey team
  • Logan Scorpions, Australian rugby league football club
  • New Mexico Scorpions, American hockey team
  • San Antonio Scorpions, American soccer club
  • Scottsdale Scorpions, American professional baseball team
  • South Wales Scorpions, Welsh rugby league football club
  • Stuttgart Scorpions, German American football team
  • Yuma Desert Rats or Yuma Scorpions, defunct baseball team that played in various independent minor leagues
  • The Scorpions, a professional wrestling tag-team from the United States Wrestling Association

Transportation

  • Scorpion (dinghy), a class of small sailing dinghy
  • Grinnall Scorpion III, a three-wheeled roadster
  • Grinnall Scorpion IV, a four-wheeled roadster
  • Mahindra Scorpio-N, an Indian compact SUV
  • Mitsubishi Scorpion, an automobile made by Mitsubishi Motors
  • Ronn Motor Scorpion, an automobile
  • RotorWay Scorpion, a line of helicopters
  • SC Scorpion, a Ukrainian paraglider design

Other uses

  • Scorpion (roller coaster), a roller coaster at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay
  • Scorpion Prison, a prison in Egypt

See also

  • Scorpia (comics), a Marvel Comics supervillainess
  • Scorpia, fictional character in the animated television series She-Ra: Princess of Power and She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
  • Scorpio (disambiguation)
  • The Scorpion and the Frog, an animal fable
  • Scorpion man, an Akkadian mythological figure
  • Scorpius (disambiguation)
  • Scorponok, several fictional characters in the various Transformers universes
  • Skorpion (disambiguation)
  • Water scorpion, an insect
  • Sea Scorpion (disambiguation)