Grand Slam
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Grand Slam or Grand slam may refer to:
Sports and games
Auto racing
- Grand Slam (NASCAR), winning all Sprint Cup Series majors in a calendar year
- Grand Slam (Formula One), winning a race from pole while leading every lap and scoring the fastest lap
Chess
- Grand Slam Chess Association, a series of major annual chess tournaments
- Grand Slam Masters Final, or Bilbao Chess Masters Final, a culminating annual chess tournament
Equestrian
- Grand Slam (horse), an American thoroughbred
- Equestrian Grand Slam, any of several events
- Grand Slam of Eventing, three particular world horse trials competitions
- Grand Slam of Show Jumping, one rider winning all three major annual competitions consecutively
Golf
- Grand Slam (golf), one player winning all four major annual tournaments
- PGA Grand Slam of Golf), an annual off-season men's competition
Judo
- Grand Slam Paris, an international competition
- Grand Slam Tokyo, an international competition
Tennis
- Grand Slam (tennis), one player or pair winning all four major annual tournaments, or the tournaments themselves
- Pepsi Grand Slam, an annual men's professional tournament
- Grand Slam Cup, an annual international tournament
- Grand Slam (real tennis), a player or pair winning all four major annual real tennis tournaments
Video games
- Grandslam Entertainment, a video game company
- Grand Slam Tennis, a game for the Nintendo Wii
- Golf Grand Slam (video game), for the Nintendo NES
Other sports
- Grand slam (baseball), a home run with all bases occupied
- Grand slam, in contract bridge, winning all thirteen tricks in one hand
- Capital One Grand Slam of Curling, a series of annual curling bonspiels
- Grand Slam (PBA), one team winning all three major annual Philippine Basketball Association tournaments in a single season
- Grand Slam (rugby union), one national team defeating all others in the annual rugby union series now called Six Nations Championship
- Grand Slam (professional wrestling), various achievements defined by winning four specific professional wrestling championships
- Grand Slam of Ultrarunning, an award for one person finishing four specified annual 100-mile footraces in the U.S.
- Grand Slam (shinty), one club winning four specific annual shinty trophies
- Explorers Grand Slam or Adventurers Grand Slam, one person reaching the North Pole, the South Pole, and all of the Seven Summits during an adventuring career
- Grand Slam (Fly-Fishing Caribbean), one angler catching a bonefish, tarpon, and permit during one day of Caribbean fly-fishing
- Grand slam, in roller derby, a five-point scoring pass
Entertainment
Personal achievements
- Grand Slam of Hollywood show business, also called the EGOT, or winning Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Awards in an American entertainment career
- Grand Slam of Philippine film industry, winning category awards from four major film award-giving bodies in a year
Fiction
- Operation Grand Slam, a criminal plan in the James bond novel Goldfinger
Film and television
- Grand Slam (1933 film), an American comedy
- Grand Slam (1967 film), an Italian heist movie
- 50 Grand Slam, a 1976 American game show
- Grand Slam (1978 film), a Welsh TV comedy
- Grand Slam (TV series), a 1990 American action drama
- Grand Slam (UK game show), 2003
- Grand Slam (U.S. game show), a 2007 American remake
- Grand Slam (G.I. Joe), a fictional character
Music
- Grand Slam (The Isley Brothers album)
- Grand Slam (Magic Slim album)
- Grand Slam (Spiderbait album)
- Grand Slam (band), formed by Thin Lizzy bassist and vocalist Phil Lynott
- Juice Leskinen Grand Slam, a Finnish rock band
Military
- Grand Slam (bomb), a 10-tonne British "earthquake bomb" of World War II
- Grand Slam Installation, a modification of the B-36 bomber to add nuclear weapons delivery capability
- Exercise Grand Slam, a 1952 NATO naval exercise in the Mediterranean Sea
- Operation Grand Slam, the US espionage mission which triggered the 1960 U-2 incident
- Operation Grand Slam, a Pakistan Army offensive plan during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965
Other
- Grand Slam breakfast, a dish at Denny's restaurants
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