Handicapped or handicap may refer to:
- Handicapping, various methods of leveling a sport or game
- Chess handicap, a variety of handicapping methods in chess
- Golf handicap, a sport-specific handicapping method
- Go handicaps
- Handicaps in shogi
- Asian handicap, bookmakers technique to level odds
- Disability, a human condition
- Handicap principle, an evolutionary theory
- Self-handicapping, a psychological method of finding something to blame for failure besides one's own inability
- Hand-in-cap, the old English trading game which is the origin of the term
Famous quotes containing the word handicap:
“I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.”
—Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)