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