Triple

Triple, a doublet of "treble" or "threefold" (from Latin triplus, "triple"; cf. "double" from duplus), is used in several contexts:

Sports

• Triple (baseball), a three-base hit
• A basketball three-point field goal
• In bowling terms, three strikes in a row
• Triple jump, a figure skating jump
• In motocross, three jumps in a row which an advanced rider to jump over, skipping two jumps

Transportation

• Kawasaki triple, a motorcycle exported from 1969 to 1980
• Triumph Triple, a motorcycle engine credited with saving the Triumph Motorcycle Company
• A straight-three engine
• A semi-truck with three trailers

Places

• Triple Islands, an uninhabited island group in Nunavut, Canada
• Triple Island, British Columbia, Canada
• Triple Falls, two waterfalls in the United States
• Triple Glaciers, in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
• Triple Crossing, Richmond, Virginia, believed to be the only place in North America where three Class I railroads cross
• Triple Bridge, a stone arch bridge in Ljubljana, Slovenia

Other uses

• Triple (novel), a novel by Ken Follett
• Triples (cereal), a breakfast cereal made by General Mills in the 1990s
• Triple, a humorous paraprosdokian consisting of three statements, in which the third statement does not match the first two
• The native data format used in Resource Description Framework

See also

• Triple jump, a track and field sport
• Triple metre, a musical metre characterized by a primary division of three beats to the bar
• Triple point, in thermodynamics, the temperature and pressure at which three states of matter can co-exist
• Triplet (disambiguation)
• Tripel, a style of beer