Gridiron

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 may also refer to:

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
• Hash marks, in ice hockey and gridiron football
• GridIron Master, a board game
• Gridiron (card game), a football themed collectible card 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
• Gridiron Gang, a 2006 film
• 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
• 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
• In marine salvage, a ship, especially a wooden ship, at the end of its life is settled onto a gridiron to keep the hull clear

Other uses

• Riding the Gridiron, a phrase for travelling on an East Indiaman, referring to the flag of the East India Company
• Gridiron's incision, in medicine, the traditional surgical skin incision in appendectomy