Shower (disambiguation)

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Contents 1 Weather 2 For washing 3 Activity 4 Music 5 Films 6 Television 7 Events 8 People 9 Astronomy 10 Other

A shower can be:

[edit] Weather

• A shower, a short period of rain or snow or hail or sleet
  • Mango showers, pre-monsoon showers in the Indian states of Karnataka and Kerala that help in the ripening of mangoes
  • Sunshower, an unusual meteorological phenomenon in which rain falls while the sun is shining
  • Wintry showers, an informal meteorological term for various mixtures of rain, freezing rain, sleet and snow

[edit] For washing

• Shower, a booth for washing, usually in a bathroom, having an overhead nozzle that sprays water down on the body. Also called shower bath
  • See Shower#Types of shower for types of shower
  • See Shower#Equipment used in showers for equipment used in showers

[edit] Activity

• Gatorade shower, a sports tradition where a cooler full of iced Gatorade is dumped over a football coach's head following a meaningful win
• Golden shower, a sexual fetish in which participants derive sexual pleasure from urine and urination
• Shower (juggling), a juggling pattern for balls and bean bags, where the objects are thrown in a circular motion
• Shower singing, a habit-type activity that takes place while taking a shower

[edit] Music

• April Showers, a song introduced in the 1921 Broadway musical Bombo, where it was performed by Al Jolson
• Golden Shower of Hits, the third album by the hardcore band Circle Jerks
• Rhythm Shower, an album by The Upsetters, released in 1973
• Shower the People, the opening track on James Taylor's 1976 album In the Pocket
• Shower Your Love, a 1999 song by Kula Shaker
• Singing in the Shower, a song title from various performers
• Sunny Spells and Scattered Showers, an album by Solas, was released in 1997
• Sunshower (Thelma Houston album), the debut album of Thelma Houston released in 1969
• Sunshowers, the second single from M.I.A.'s album, Arular
• The Power of Shower, the first full-length studio album from Dan Bălan's Crazy Loop act. The album was released in 2007

[edit] Films

• April's Shower, a 2006 romantic comedy film
• Between Showers, a 1914 short film made by Keystone Studios and directed by Henry Lehrman
• Cold Showers, a French 2005 film directed by Antony Cordier
• In Which Addison Finds a Showerhead, the fifth episode of the first season from the Grey's Anatomy spin-off show, Private Practice
• Shower (film), an award-winning 1999 Chinese drama / comedy film
• The Shower/La Douche, a 1999 short film by the Lebanese director Michel Kammoun
• A Description of a City Shower, a poem by the Anglo-Irish poet Jonathan Swift, written in 1710

[edit] Television

• My Cold Shower, the 136th episode of the American sitcom Scrubs
• Shower Game, a 1978 pricing game on the American television game show, The Price Is Right
• Shower of Stars, a variety television series broadcast in the United States in the mid-1950s by CBS
• The Baby Shower, disambiguation for two television episodes:
  • The Baby Shower (SATC episode), the tenth episode of the first season of the television series Sex and the City that first aired in 1998
  • The Baby Shower (Seinfeld episode), the fifteenth episode of Seinfeld that first aired in 1991
• The Shower Head, the 126th episode of NBC sitcom Seinfeld that first aired in 1996
• The Shower, the 25th episode of the FOX television series, The O.C. that first aired in 2004

[edit] Events

• Baby shower, a party in which parents or expectant parents receive gifts for their newborn or expected child
• Bridal shower, a gift giving party given for a bride before her wedding

[edit] People

• Ambersunshower, R&B singer and former member of the rap duo Groove Garden
• Christopher Showerman, American actor born in 1971
• Derek Showers, former Welsh professional footballer and Welsh international born in 1953
• Edward Maclean Showers, 19th century British soldier, police officer, and Chief Constable
• Glenn Morshower, American actor known for his recurring role as Secret Service Agent Aaron Pierce on the television drama 24
• Golden Shower (band), an electronic music duo from São Paulo, Brazil
• Jacob Shower, American politician from the 1850s
• Kathy Shower, Playboy's Playmate of the Month for May 1985 and Playmate of the Year for 1986
• Reggie Showers, two-time motorcycle drag racing world champion born in 1964

[edit] Astronomy

• Akeno Giant Air Shower Array, a very large surface telescope array designed to study the origin of ultra-high energy cosmic rays
• Chicago Air Shower Array, a very large telescope array of scintillation counters located in Utah, United States
• Meteor shower, a celestial event where a group of meteors are observed to radiate from one point in the sky
  • List of meteor showers
  • Radiant (meteor shower), a point in the sky, from which (to a planetary observer) meteors appear to originate
• Particle shower, a cascade of secondary subatomic particles produced from a high-energy particle interacting with dense matter
  • Air shower (physics), an extensive (many kilometres wide) cascade of ionized particles and electromagnetic radiation produced in the atmosphere when a primary cosmic ray (i.e. one of extraterrestrial origin) enters our atmosphere

[edit] Other

• Golden Shower Tree, a flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, native to southern Asia
• Mount Showers, a mountain rising in Antarctica
• Shower-curtain effect, a physics phenomenon in which a shower curtain gets blown inward with a running shower
• Sonic shower, a fictional device used for personal hygiene onboard starships, shuttlecrafts and starbases in the television show Star Trek