Giant

Giant or Giants may refer to:

In mythology

• Giant (mythology)
  • Giants (Greek mythology)
  • Giants (esotericism)
  • Giants (Norse mythology)
  • Giants (Welsh folklore)

In arts and entertainment

In literature and publications

• Giant a 1952 novel by Edna Ferber
• The Giants series, a science fiction series by James P. Hogan
• GIANT, an urban music American magazine

Films

• Giant (1956 film), a film adaptation of Ferber's novel
• Giant (2009 film), an Uruguayan film
• The Giants (film), a 2011 Belgium film

Video games

• Giants: Citizen Kabuto, a 2000 third-person shooter game
• Skylanders: Giants, a 2012 beat-em-up game

Fictional characters

• Giant (Dungeons & Dragons), a type of fictional character in games
• Giants (Marvel Comics), a fictional race of people based on the giants of actual Norse legends
• The Giant (Twin Peaks), an inhabitant of The Black Lodge in the 1990s television series
• Judge Giant, two fictional characters in the Judge Dredd comic strip
• Lily Duncan (also known as "Princess Giant"), a character from the television series Mona the Vampire

In music

Bands

• Giant (band), an American melodic hard rock band
• Giants (band), an American post-rock band

Works

• Giant (musical), a 2009 musical adaptation of Ferber's novel
• The Giant (opera), a 1950 opera by the child Sergei Prokofiev

Albums

• Giant (Herman Düne album), 2006
• Giant (The Woodentops album), 1986
• Giants (Chicane album), 2010
• Giants (Dizzy Gillespie album), 1971
• Giants (The Stranglers album), 2012
• The Giant (Ahab album), 2012
• The Giant (Dizzy Gillespie album), 1973
• The Giants (album), a 1974 album featuring Oscar Peterson, Joe Pass, and Ray Brown

Songs

• "Giant" (song), by Stan Rogers
• "Giant", by the Matthew Good Band from the album Beautiful Midnight
• "Giant", by The The from the album Soul Mining
• "Giant", by Vampire Weekend from certain editions of the album Contra
• "Giant", by Gentle Giant from their self-titled album.
• "Giants", a song by Scale the Summit from the album Carving Desert Canyons
• "Giants", a song by Sponge from Rotting Piñata
• "Giants", a song by the Stranglers album title track,
• "Giants", a song by Jimmy Cliff
• "Giants", a song by Josh Osho and Childish Gambino
• "Giants", a song by Donald Lawrence
• "Giants", a song by Now, Now
• Giants (Bear Hands song)

In television

• Giant (TV series), a 2010 historical drama series from SBS
• The Giants (1978 TV series), a 1978 TVB television series
• The Giants, an unproduced 1960s Doctor Who television serial
• "Giants", an episode of the television series Zoboomafoo
• Search For The Lost Giants - a 2014 History Channel Reality series narrated by Kevin Delaney (actor)

In sports

Teams

North America

• Jacksonville Giants, a basketball team
• New York Giants (disambiguation), in various sports and eras
  • New York Giants, a National Football League team
• San Francisco Giants, a Major League Baseball team
  • Arizona League Giants, their AZL minor league affiliate
  • San Jose Giants, their High-A minor league affiliate
• Vancouver Giants, a Western Hockey League team

Negro League baseball

• Bacharach Giants
• Chicago Giants
• Cleveland Giants
• Cuban Giants
• Harrisburg Giants
• Illinois Giants
• Leland Giants
• Lincoln Giants
• Page Fence Giants
• Philadelphia Giants
• St. Louis Giants

South America

• Gigantes del Sur, an Argentine volleyball team

Asia

• Lotte Giants, a South Korean baseball team
• Delhi Giants, a team in the unsanctioned Indian Cricket League
• Yomiuri Giants, a Japanese baseball team
• Rising Pune Supergiants, a cricket franchise based on Pune in Indian Premier League

Australia

• Gold Coast-Tweed Giants, a rugby league team
• Goldfields Giants, a State Basketball League team
• Greater Western Sydney Giants, an Australian Football League team nicknamed the "Giants"

Caribbean

• Carolina Giants, the name of various Puerto Rican sports teams
• Cibao Giants, a Dominican Republic Professional Baseball League team
• Guayana Giants, a Venezuelan basketball team

Europe

• Bayer Giants, a German basketball club
• Gigant Belene, a Bulgarian football club
• Belfast Giants, an Irish EIHL ice hockey team
• Giants Bolzano, an American football club from Italy competing in the Italian Football League
• Dortmund Giants, an American football club from Dortmund, Germany
• Huddersfield Giants, an English rugby league team competing in Super League
• Manchester Giants, a British Basketball League team
• Giants Nördlingen, a German basketball club
• Giant-Alpecin, a German-based cycling team
• Team Giant Scatto, a Danish-based cycling team

Other sports

• Giant (gymnastics), an artistic gymnastics skill

In astronomy

• Giant star in astronomy
• Gas giant, a type of planet

Businesses

• Grenoble Innovation for Advanced New Technologies, an innovation campus in Polygone Scientifique in Grenoble, France
• Giant Bicycles, bicycle maker
• GIANT Company Software, internet security developer
• Giant Food (disambiguation)
• Giant Hypermarket, chain in southern and eastern Asia
• Giant Records (disambiguation)

Places

• Giant, Richmond, California, former unincorporated community
• Giant Forest, Sequoia National Park, California
• Giant Geyser, Yellowstone National Park
• Giant Mountain, New York
• Giant Springs, near Great Falls, Montana

People

• People with the medical condition gigantism (also known as giantism)
• André the Giant, French wrestler and actor
• Giant Haystacks, English professional wrestler
• The Giant, a ring name for American wrestler Paul "The Big Show" Wight

Other uses

• Giant Center, an arena in Hershey, Pennsylvania
• Giant Mine, a gold mine in the Northwest Territories, Canada
• GIANT AntiSpyware, a software application
• The Giant Plane, one of the largest London plane trees in the world, almost 11-metre thick in girth

See also

• All pages beginning with "Giant"
• All pages with titles containing Giant
• Geant (disambiguation)
• Gigant (disambiguation)
• Monster (disambiguation)
• List of tallest people