Gator

Gator is often used as an aphaeresis of the word "alligator."

Gator may refer to:

  • Gator (film), a 1976 action movie starring and directed by Burt Reynolds
  • Gator (game), a swimming pool game
  • Gatorade, a popular brand of sports drink
  • John Deere Gator, a small utility vehicle manufactured by Deere & Company
  • Claria Corporation, formerly Gator Corporation, an Internet advertising company known for its Gator adware
    • Gator, or 'Gator AdServ a piece of adware or spyware shipped with many pieces of peer to peer software
  • G/ATOR, or Ground Air Task Oriented Radar, a radar system in development by the United States Marine Corps
  • Amphibious warfare ships, popularly known as "gators" or "gator freighters"
  • Wally Gator, cartoon by Hanna-Barbera

In sports:

  • Florida Gators, the name of the University of Florida's athletic teams
  • San Francisco State University teams
  • Gator, a defensive technique in volleyball popularized by Danny Kinda (See: Volleyball jargon)

As a pseudonym:

  • Mike Greenwell (born 1963), baseball player, left fielder with the Boston Red Sox from 1985 to 1996
  • Ron Guidry (born 1950), baseball player, pitcher with the New York Yankees from 1975 to 1988
  • Mark Rogowski (born 1966), professional skateboarder, convicted for a 1991 murder