Rover

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Rover or rovers may refer to:

People

  • Elena Rover (born 1966), digital strategy consultant in the New York area
  • Jolanda de Rover (born 1963), former backstroke swimmer from the Netherlands
  • Rover Thomas (c. 1920–1998), Indigenous Australian artist

Places

Arts and entertainment

Films and television
Literature
Music
  • "Rover" (BlocBoy JB song), 2018 song
    • "Rover 2.0", remake by BlocBoy JB featuring 21 Savage from the mixtape Simi
  • "Rover" (S1mba song), 2020 viral hit by S1mba featuring DTG
  • "Rover" (UCLA song), a sports cheer at the University of California Los Angeles. The music is based on the song "I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover"
  • "The Irish Rover", an Irish folk song about a magnificent sailing ship that reaches an unfortunate end
Fiction
  • Rover, main character in the novella Roverandom by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • Rover (robot dog), a character on Lunar Jim always helping on Jim's missions
  • Rover (The Prisoner), a fictional balloon device in the 1967 British television program The Prisoner.
  • Rover, the name of two vehicles with artificial intelligence, built by Marvel Comics' Hank Pym
  • The Rovers, informal name for the Rovers Return Inn, a fictional pub in British soap opera Coronation Street

Science

  • Rover (space exploration), a vehicle that explores the surface of an astronomical body
    • Lunar rover, a vehicle designed to move across the surface of the Moon
    • Mars rover, a vehicle designed to explore the surface of Mars
  • ROVER, a military system that receives video images from aircraft

Sports

Association football teams

Rugby league teams

Other football teams

Other sports uses

Transport

Automobiles and motorcycles

  • Freight Rover (1981–1986), a commercial vehicle manufacturing division of Leyland
  • Land Rover Group (1981–1987), a light commercial vehicle division of Leyland
  • Land Rover, a brand of 4-wheel drive vehicles by the British manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover
  • MG Rover Group (2000–2005), a British mass-production car manufacturer, formerly the Rover Group
  • Rover Company (1885–1967), a British car manufacturing company, absorbed into Leyland Motor Corporation
  • Rover Group (1986–2000), a British car manufacturer, previously known as British Leyland
  • Rover Light Armoured Car, an armored car produced in Australia during World War II
  • Rover (marque), British automotive marque (brand) in use from 1904–2005
  • Rover (motorcycles), a British bicycle and motorcycle manufacturer before it began the manufacture of motor cars

Business (transport)

  • Rover (ticket), a type of bus or train ticket issued in the UK
  • Rover Coaches, an Australian bus company operating services in the Hunter Valley

Locomotives

  • GWR Rover class, a class of locomotives on the Great Western Railway
  • Rover, a GWR 3031 Class locomotive in service on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915

Watercraft

Other uses

See also

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