Grasshopper (disambiguation)
- Grasshopper (disambiguation)
A grasshopper is a common type of herbivorous insect.
Grasshopper can also mean:
* The Grasshopper (horse), is the name of a famous eventer.
* Grasshopper (J. J. Cale album), the seventh album by J. J. Cale.
* Grasshopper (band), a Cantopop group from Hong Kong.
* grasshopper (chess piece), a fairy chess piece.
* grasshopper chess, a chess variant.
* Grasshopper-Club Zürich, a football club from Switzerland.
* Grasshopper Lions an ice-hockey team from Zürich, Switzerland
* Grasshopper (cocktail), an alcoholic beverage.
* Grasshopper (comics), a Marvel Comics superhero.
* Grasshopper escapement, a clock escapement.
* Grasshopper Manufacture, a video game developing company.
* Grasshopper (musician)
* "Grasshopper", a brand of cookies from the Keebler Company.
* "Grasshopper", the nickname given to Kwai Chang Caine by Master Po in the television series, "Kung Fu".
* "Grasshopper" was the name used for a group of similar high winged cabin monoplanes from different manufacturers used for the observation role by the United States in WW II, it included the Taylorcraft L-2, Aeronca L-3 and Piper L-4.
* "Grasshopper" was the nickname for an early B&O locomotive, the Atlantic, due to the distinctive vertical pushrods.
* Grasshopper (Software), a framework to allow the use of VisualBasic and C Sharp (programming language) applications to run on a Java Application Server [http://dev.mainsoft.com/Default.aspx?tabid=130] .
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