Gridiron
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Gridiron may refer to:
- Gridiron (cooking), type of grill that can be used to cook meat or other food over a fire; most of the other usages derive from this term due to their fancied resemblance
- Gridiron plan, in urban planning, a system that describes an ordered arrangement of streets in a regular grid pattern, intersecting at right angles
- In theatres, a metal framework suspended above the stage from which lights and other items are hung
- Gridiron pendulum, a part of a pendulum clock as designed by John Harrison
- Gridiron (novel), a science fiction novel about a semi-intelligent building infected by a virus
- Gridiron Club, a journalistic organization in Washington, DC, USA
- Gridiron Gang, a 2006 film
- GridIron Master, a board game
- Captain Grid-Iron, a G.I. Joe character
- 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
Gridiron in sport may refer to:
- Gridiron, a slang term for the field on which American football is played
- Gridiron football, a term used by Australians, British and New Zealanders to refer to American football
- Gridiron Enterprises, a sports consulting company noted for owning the patent for Arena Football
- Hash marks, in ice hockey and gridiron football