Grit

Grit, Grits, or Gritty may refer to:

Food

 * Grit (grain), bran, chaff, mill-dust or coarse oatmeal
 * Grits, a corn-based food common in the Southern United States

Minerals

 * Grit, winter pavement-treatment minerals deployed in grit bins
 * Grit, or gastrolith, swallowed abrasive substances with roles in digestion
 * Gritstone, category of sedimentary rock
 * Grit (supplement), calcium source and digestion aid in birds

Abrasive technologies

 * Grit, one of the byproducts of grinding, an abrasive machining process
 * Grit removal, the removal of grit, the coarse abrasive material in untreated sewage
 * Grit size table, fineness/coarseness classification of sandpaper grit, and compares the CAMI and "P" designations with the average grit size in micrometres (μm)

Art and entertainment

 * Grit (film), a 1924 American silent film starring Clara Bow
 * Grit (play), a 2023 Nigerian play by Obari Gomba
 * Grit (newspaper), a magazine, formerly a weekly newspaper
 * Grit (Transformers), a Micromasters Decepticon - Constructor Squad character
 * Grit (TV network), an American digital multicast television network
 * Grit (Martyn Bennett album), a 2003 album by Martyn Bennett
 * Grit (Madrugada album), a 2002 album by Norwegian band Madrugada
 * GRITS, a hip hop duo from the United States

People with the name

 * Grit Boettcher (born 1938), German actress
 * Grit Breuer (born 1972), former German athlete
 * Diederik Grit (1949–2012), Dutch translator and translation scholar
 * Grit Haid (1900–1938), Austrian stage and film actress
 * Grit Hammer (born 1966), retired German shot putter
 * Grit Hegesa (1891–1972), German dancer and silent film actress
 * Grit Jurack (born 1977), former German handball player
 * Grit Lehmann (born 1976), professional female volleyball player
 * Grit Müller (born 1972), retired German swimmer
 * Grit Naumann (born 1966), retired German female volleyball player
 * Grit Šadeiko (born 1989), Estonian heptathlete
 * Grit Slaby (born 1965), German swimmer

Places

 * Grit, Texas, USA
 * Grit, Virginia, USA

Other uses

 * Grit (personality trait), a positive non-cognitive trait
 * GRIT, the RICS (gene), a protein in humans
 * Grits, a former pet of US president Jimmy Carter
 * Gritty (mascot), NHL mascot of the Philadelphia Flyers since 2018
 * Clear Grits, 19th-century political movement
 * Liberal Party of Canada, colloquially referred to as the Grits
 * GRITS, the new universal tolling system soon to be adopted in the Greek motorway system