Gridiron
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Gridiron may refer to:
- Gridiron (cooking), a type of cooking grill
- Gridiron, Sonora, a steamboat landing on the lower Colorado River after 1854
Sports and games
- Gridiron, a term for the field marked with yard-lines on which American and Canadian codes of football are played
- Gridiron football, umbrella term used to refer to the several codes of football which use a gridiron field
- Gridiron Enterprises, a sports consulting company noted for owning the patent for Arena Football
- Gridiron (card game), a football themed collectible card game
- Hash marks, in ice hockey and gridiron football
- GridIron Master, a board game
Organizations
- Gridiron Secret Society, a secret society at the University of Georgia
- Gridiron Club (Washington DC), a journalistic organization in Washington, DC, USA
- The Gridiron Club (Oxford University), an undergraduate club founded in 1884
Arts and entertainment
- Gridiron (novel), a 1995 science fiction novel about a semi-intelligent building infected by a virus
- Captain Grid-Iron, a G.I. Joe character
Architecture and engineering
- Gridiron plan, in urban planning, a system that describes an ordered arrangement of streets in a regular grid pattern, intersecting at right angles
- Gridiron pendulum, a part of a pendulum clock as designed by John Harrison
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