Giant

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Giant or Giants may refer to:

• Giant (mythology), very tall mythological creatures or monsters
  • Giant (Dungeons & Dragons), a type of creature in the Dungeons & Dragons role playing game
• Gigantism or giantism, medical condition causing tall height in humans
• Giant's Causeway, an UNESCO World Heritage Site which is a volcanic landscape
• Giant, Richmond, California, an unincorporated community now annexed to Richmond, California

In business:

• Giant Manufacturing, the world's largest bicycle manufacturer, located in Taiwan
• Giant Food, two distinct supermarket chains in the Mid-Atlantic part of the United States
• GIANT Company Software, an internet security software developer
• Giant Hypermarket, a hypermarket chain in Malaysia, Singapore, India and Indonesia

In entertainment and media:

• Giant (novel), a 1952 novel by Edna Ferber
  • Giant (film), a 1956 film directed by George Stevens and inspired by the novel
  • Giant (musical), a 2009 musical play inspired by the novel
• Giants: Citizen Kabuto, a third-person shooter computer game
• Giant (band), an American hair metal band
• "The Giant", a song by Canadian folk singer Stan Rogers
• Giant (magazine), a bi-monthly men's magazine
• André the Giant, an actor and French professional wrestler
• Paul Wight, an American professional wrestler who used the name The Giant in WCW
• Giant Records (Warner Bros. subsidiary label), a record label
• "The Giants", an early conception for the first serial of Doctor Who; see List of unmade Doctor Who serials and films#The Giants

In sports:

• New York Giants, NFL American football team
• San Francisco Giants (formerly New York Giants), National League baseball team
• San Jose Giants, a minor league baseball team
• Arizona League Giants (AZL Giants), a minor league baseball team
• Belfast Giants, an EIHL ice hockey team
• Gold Coast-Tweed Giants, Australian rugby league team
• Huddersfield Giants, a rugby league team competing in Super League
• Lotte Giants, a South Korean professional baseball team
• Vancouver Giants, a WHL hockey team
• Delhi Giants, a cricket team in the unofficial Indian Cricket League
• Yomiuri Giants, a Japanese professional baseball team

Other:

• Giant animal (mythology), giant animals of mythology
• Giant star, a star that is 10 to 100 times as big as our sun
• Ogias the Giant, or The Book of Giants, an apocryphal 2nd century BC book relating to the Old Testament

See also:

• Gigante (disambiguation)
• Large (disambiguation)

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