Skipper or skippers may refer to:

Rank

  • Skipper (boating), a person who has command of a vessel
  • Skipper (rank), a former warrant rank in the British Royal Naval Reserve
  • The leader of a Sea Scouts (Boy Scouts of America) troop

Sports

  • Another name for a team's manager (baseball), captain (association football), or captain (cricket)
  • One who skips using a skipping rope
  • Houston Skippers, a minor league ice hockey team based in Houston, Texas, that played in the 1946 season
  • Skipper (cannon), the game cannon used by the Virginia Tech Hokies football team

People

  • Skipper (surname)
  • Skipper Badenhorst (born 1978), South African rugby union player
  • Skipper Bowles (1919–1986), American politician and businessman
  • Skipper Clement (c. 1484–1536), Danish merchant, captain, privateer and leader of a peasant rebellion
  • Francis Gidney (1890–1928), an early leader of the Scouting movement in the United Kingdom
  • Thomas Pinckney "Skipper" Heard (1898–1980), longtime athletics director of Louisiana State University
  • Skipper Mullins (born c. 1945), American taekwondo 10th degree black belt
  • Floyd B. Olson (1891–1936), American politician and lawyer
  • Skipper Roberts (baseball) (1888–1963), American Major League Baseball catcher
  • Skipper Wise, American singer, songwriter, musician and entrepreneur

Places

  • Skippers, Virginia, an unincorporated community
  • Skippers Canyon, New Zealand

Arts and entertainment

  • The Skipper, a character from the television series Gilligan's Island
  • Skipper (Barbie), a doll, Barbie's younger sister
  • Skipper (Madagascar), a character in Madagascar and The Penguins of Madagascar
  • Kill Cruise (German title: Der Skipper), a 1990 film starring Jürgen Prochnow, Patsy Kensit and Elizabeth Hurley
  • Skippers (TV programme), an Irish documentary series
  • Skipper Riley, a character in the movie Planes
  • "Skipper" (The Bill), 1987 TV episode
  • "Skipper" (Red Dwarf), 2017 TV episode

Animals

  • Skipper (butterfly), a family of butterflies
  • Another name for the European sprat, a fish

Other uses

  • AGM-123 Skipper II, a short-range laser-guided missile
  • AMT Skipper, a semi-automatic pistol
  • USS Skipper, a U.S. Navy minesweeper
  • Beechcraft Skipper, a model of aircraft
  • Skippers Aviation, a charter airline based in Osborne Park, a suburb of Perth, Australia
  • Skippers Seafood & Chowder House, a chain of independently owned and operated restaurants
  • Skipper (computer software), a visualization tool and code generator for PHP ORM frameworks
  • Skipper, an oil tanker subject to the United States seizure of the oil tanker Skipper

See also

  • Skip (disambiguation)