Gridiron

Gridiron may refer to:

• Gridiron Secret Society, a secret society at the University of Georgia.
• 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 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
• Gridiron (novel), a science fiction novel about a semi-intelligent building infected by a virus
• Gridiron Club, a journalistic organization in Washington, DC, USA
• The Gridiron Club (Oxford University), an undergraduate club founded in 1884
• Gridiron Gang, a 2006 film
• GridIron Master, a board game
• Gridiron (card game), a football themed collectible card game
• Captain Grid-Iron, a G.I. Joe character
• In marine salvage, a ship, especially a wooden ship, at the end of its life is allowed to settle onto a gridiron to keep the hull clear of the sea bed and allow complete salvage of the hull
• 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 may refer to the traditional surgical skin incision in appendectomy, usually the first learned, or practiced, by a medical student in the rotation to general surgery.

Gridiron in sport may refer to:

• 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