Gridiron

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Gridiron in sport may refer to:

• Gridiron football as a sporting game, also known as American football.
• Gridiron Enterprises, a sports consulting company noted for owning the patent for Arena Football.
• In American football, gridiron may also refer to the Hash marks painted on the field.
• In Cycletouring, an annual event held in the New Forest - Gridiron 100km

Gridiron may also refer to:

• In Marine salvage a ship, especially a wooden ship, at the end of its life is allowed to settle onto a gridiron to keep the hull clear of the sea bed and allow complete salvage of the hull.
• In urban planning, a gridiron plan system describes an ordered arrangement of streets in a regular grid pattern, intersecting at right angles
• In theatres, the gridiron is a metal framework suspended above the stage from which lights and other items are hung
• A gridiron (cooking) is also a type of grill that can be used to cook meat or other food over a fire
• A gridiron pendulum is a part of a pendulum clock as designed by John Harrison
• Gridiron (science fiction story) — a story about a semi-intelligent large office building going wild, because it is infected by intelligent malevolent virus software
• Gridiron Club is a journalistic organization in Washington, D.C., USA
• A variety of bridge, the gridiron bridge
• Gridiron Gang, a 2006 film