Grand Slam

Grand Slam may refer to:

Competition

Card games

• In the game of contract bridge a bid to win all the tricks of that hand. By extension, the taking of all the important elements in an endeavour.

Equestrianism

• Grand Slam (horse) (born 1995), graded stakes race winning thoroughbred race horse
• Grand Slam of Eventing, consecutively winning 3 of the most prestigious three-day events in the world

Golf

• Grand Slam (golf), a career achievement
• PGA Grand Slam of Golf, an annual competition

Tennis

• Grand Slam (real tennis), in the sport of real tennis is earned by a player who holds the Australian Open, U.S. Open, French Open and British Open titles in the same calendar year
• Grand Slam (tennis), tennis tournaments, also called the Grand Slams, are the four most important tennis events of the year in terms of world ranking points, tradition, prize-money awarded, and public attention: the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon, and the U.S. Open
• Grand Slam Cup, a former international tennis tournament held in Germany
• Pepsi Grand Slam, a former men's tennis competition

Other sports

• Grand slam (baseball), a home run hit with all the bases occupied by baserunners, thereby scoring four runs—the most possible on a single play
• Grand Slam Chess Association, most prestigious chess tournaments besides the World Chess Championship cycle
• Capital One Grand Slam of Curling, a series of curling bonspiels part of the annual World Curling Tour
• Grand Slam (PBA) of the Philippine Basketball Association
• Grand Slam (rugby union), occurs when one team in the Six Nations Championship (or its predecessors) manages to beat all the others during one year's competition. The last team to have won the Six Nations Grand Slam was France in 2010
• Grand Slam Paris and Grand Slam Tokyo, Judo championships
• Grand Slam (NASCAR), a cash prize award program on the NASCAR Winston Cup series, based on the Grand Slam concept
• Grand Slam Championship, a recognition defined by winning four specific professional wrestling championships
• Grand Slam of Ultrarunning, oldest and most prestigious 100 mile races in the U.S.
• Grand Chelem, leading every lap of a Formula One Grand Prix after starting from pole position, while also setting the fastest lap.

Entertainment

Film and Television

• 50 Grand Slam, 1976 US game show
• Grand Slam (1967 film), a 1967 Italian heist movie
• Grand Slam (1978 film), a 1978 Welsh TV comedy movie
• Grand Slam (TV series), a 2003 British quiz show
• Grand Slam (US game show), a 2007 US remake of 2003 show
• Grand Slam (G.I. Joe), a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe
• Grandslam (Transformers), a character from the Transformers franchise

Music

• Grand Slam (band), a band formed by Thin Lizzy bassist/vocalist Phil Lynott
• Grand Slam (The Isley Brothers album), a 1981 album by the Isley Brothers
• Grand Slam (Magic Slim album), a 1983 album by Magic Slim
• Grand Slam (Spiderbait album), a 1999 album by Australian band Spiderbait

Games

• Grand Monster Slam, a 1989 computer game for the Commodore Amiga, Commodore 64, Atari ST and PC
• Grand Slam Tennis, a 2009 video game developed by EA Sports
• Grandslam Entertainment, a video game company

Military

• Grand Slam (bomb), large (12 ton) British "earthquake bomb" of World War II
• Grand Slam: a post-war project to upgrade USAF B-36 bombers to carry nuclear payloads.
• Exercise Grand Slam, a major NATO naval exercise carried out in the Mediterranean in the 1950s

Other

• Explorers Grand Slam also known as Adventurers Grand Slam, an adventurers challenge to reach the North Pole, the South Pole and all of the Seven Summits
• Grand Slam (Fly-Fishing Caribbean), when an angler is able to catch a bonefish, tarpon and permit during one day of fishing

See also

• Operation Grand Slam (disambiguation)