Double
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Double may refer to:
- Body double, someone who substitutes for the credited actor of a character
- Doppelgänger, ghostly double of a living person
Sports
- Doublebugg, a dancesport which is performed by three dancers.
- Double (baseball), two-base hit in baseball
- Double, a snooker shot where the player tries to pot a ball via one cushion
- The Double, to win a country's top division and its main cup competition in the same season in football
- Double (cricket), the feat of scoring a thousand first-class runs and taking a hundred first-class wickets in a single season.
Games
- Double, action in games, including bridge and backgammon, whereby a competitor raises the stakes to around twice their previous level
- Double, villain in the video game Mega Man X4
- In dancing games like Dance Dance Revolution or In the Groove, a mode of play in which a single player uses twice as many pads as normal (e.g. 8 instead of 4)
Music
- DOUBLE (singer)
- Double (band), Swiss pop duo that had their biggest hit in 1986 with "Captain of Her Heart"
- Double variation, a variation form in music
Other
- Double, a bet which combines two selections
- Double, former fraction of the Guernsey pound
- Double precision, computer numbering format that occupies two storage locations in computer memory at address and address+1
- Double negative, in language
- Double-banded
- Double-crested
- Double-ended
- Double-eyed
- Double-headed
- Double-lined
- Double-spurred
- Double-striped
- Double-Tongued