Skipper

Skipper or skippers may refer to:

Rank

 * Skipper (boating), a person who has command of a vessel
 * Skipper (rank), a former warrant rank in the British Royal Naval Reserve
 * The leader of a Sea Scouts (Boy Scouts of America) troop

Sports

 * Another name for a team's manager (baseball), captain (association football), or captain (cricket)
 * One who skips using a skipping rope
 * Houston Skippers, a minor league ice hockey team based in Houston, Texas, that played in the 1946 season
 * Skipper (cannon), the game cannon used by the Virginia Tech Hokies football team

People

 * Skipper (surname)
 * Skipper Badenhorst (born 1978), South African rugby union player
 * Skipper Bowles (1919–1986), American politician and businessman
 * Skipper Clement (c. 1484–1536), Danish merchant, captain, privateer and leader of a peasant rebellion
 * Francis Gidney (1890–1928), an early leader of the Scouting movement in the United Kingdom
 * Thomas Pinckney "Skipper" Heard (1898–1980), longtime athletics director of Louisiana State University
 * Skipper Mullins (born c. 1945), American Taekwondo 10th degree black belt
 * Skipper Roberts (baseball) (1888–1963), American Major League Baseball catcher
 * Skipper Wise, American singer, songwriter, musician and entrepreneur

Places

 * Skippers, Virginia, an unincorporated community
 * Skippers Canyon, New Zealand

Arts and entertainment

 * The Skipper, a character from the television series Gilligan's Island
 * Skipper (Barbie), a doll, Barbie's younger sister
 * Skipper (Madagascar), a character in Madagascar and The Penguins of Madagascar
 * Kill Cruise (German title: Der Skipper), a 1990 film starring Jürgen Prochnow, Patsy Kensit and Elizabeth Hurley
 * Skippers (TV programme), an Irish documentary series
 * Skipper Riley, a character in the movie Planes

Animals

 * Skipper (butterfly), a family of butterflies
 * Another name for the European sprat, a fish

Other uses

 * AGM-123 Skipper II, a short-range laser-guided missile
 * AMT Skipper, a semi-automatic pistol
 * USS Skipper (AMc-104), a U.S. Navy minesweeper
 * Beechcraft Skipper, a model of aircraft
 * Skippers Aviation, a charter airline based in Osborne Park, a suburb of Perth, Australia
 * Skippers Seafood & Chowder House, a chain of independently owned and operated restaurants
 * Skipper (computer software), a visualization tool and code generator for PHP ORM frameworks