Hop

A hop is a type of jump.

Hop or hops may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

 * Hop (film), a 2011 film
 * Hop! Channel, an Israeli TV channel
 * House of Payne, or HOP, an American sitcom
 * Lindy Hop, a swing dance of the 1920s and 1930s
 * Sock hop, an informal gathering which includes dancing
 * Hop Harrigan, a character in American comic books, radio serials and film serials from 1939 into the 1940s
 * Hop, a character from Pokémon Sword and Shield

People

 * Hop Bartlett, American baseball pitcher in the Negro leagues in 1924 and 1925
 * Hop Wilson (1921–1975), American Texas blues steel guitar player

Places

 * Hop River, Connecticut, United States
 * Hop Creek, South Dakota, United States
 * Hóp (Iceland), a lake
 * Hóp, a Viking settlement in Vinland

Plants

 * Humulus lupulus, the hop plant
 * Hops, its flower, used to prepare beer and other food

Science and medicine

 * HOP (gene), encoding the homeodomain-only protein
 * Hop (protein), the Hsp70-Hsp90 organizing protein
 * Hubble Origins Probe, or HOP, a proposed orbital telescope

Technology

 * Hop (networking), a portion of a route
 * Hop (software), a web broker and programming language
 * Hop (telecommunications)
 * Hindsight optimization, or Hop, an artificial intelligence technique
 * High Octet Preset, or HOP, a C1 control character
 * Spike (application), an email app formerly known as Hop

Transport

 * Air France Hop, a French airline
 * HOP card, a smart card used on public transit in Auckland, New Zealand
 * Hop Fastpass, a smart card used on public transit in Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington, United States
 * Heritage Operations Processing System, a tool for management of historic railways
 * Hope railway station (England), in England
 * Hope station (Arkansas), in Arkansas, United States
 * "The Hop", the brand for public transport in Sydney and New South Wales
 * "The Hop (streetcar)", streetcar system in Milwaukee

Other uses

 * Hop (unit), a small Korean unit of volume
 * Croatian Liberation Movement (Croatian: Hrvatski oslobodilački pokret)
 * Heritage of Pride, or HOP, the organizer of the annual gay pride march in New York City
 * Higher-Order Perl, or HOP, a Perl programming book
 * Hillsboro Hops, a minor league baseball team in the USA
 * Slang for Opium, heroin, or other narcotic or psychoactive drugs