Rover
 |
Look up Rover, rover, Rovers, or rovers in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |
Rover or rovers may refer to:
Automobiles and motorcycles
- Freight Rover (1981–1986), a commercial vehicle manufacturing division of Leyland
- Land Rover Group (1981–1987), a light commercial vehicle division of Leyland
- Land Rover, a brand of 4-wheel drive vehicles by the British manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover
- MG Rover Group (2000–2005), a British mass-production car manufacturer, formerly the Rover Group
- Rover Company (1885–1967), a British car manufacturing company, absorbed into Leyland Motor Corporation
- Rover Group (1986–2000), a British car manufacturer, previously known as British Leyland
- Rover Light Armoured Car, an armored car produced in Australia during World War II
- Rover (marque), British automotive marque (brand) in use from 1904–2005
- Rover (motorcycles), a British bicycle and motorcycle manufacturer before it began the manufacture of motor cars
Locomotives
- GWR Rover class, a class of locomotives on the Great Western Railway
- Rover, a GWR 3031 Class locomotive in service on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915
Space exploration
- Lunar rover, a vehicle designed to move across the surface of the Moon
- Mars rover, a vehicle designed to explore the surface of Mars
- Rover (space exploration), a vehicle that explores the surface of an astronomical body
Watercraft
- HMS Rover, the name of seven ships of the Royal Navy
- Rover (barque), the American merchant ship involved in the Rover Incident of 1867
- Rover (log canoe), a Chesapeake Bay log canoe, built about 1886
- Rover (privateering ship), a ship from Nova Scotia, launched in 1800
- Rover (yacht), a luxury steam yacht built for P&O chairman, Lord Inchcape, in 1930
- Rover-class tanker, a class of ships in the Royal Fleet Auxiliary of the UK
Sports
Football (soccer) teams
- A.F.C. Kempston Rovers, a football club based in Kempston, Bedfordshire, England
- Albion Rovers F.C. (Newport), Wales
- Albion Rovers F.C., Coatbridge, Scotland
- Blackburn Rovers F.C., England
- Blackpool Wren Rovers F.C., Lancashire, England
- Boston Rovers, a United States soccer team that competed in the United Soccer Association league in 1967
- Bristol Rovers F.C., England
- Doncaster Rovers F.C., England
- Fall River Rovers, a United States soccer club, based in Fall River, Massachusetts
- Forest Green Rovers F.C., Gloucestershire, England
- Paulton Rovers F.C., near Bristol, England
- Raith Rovers F.C., Kirkcaldy, Scotland
- River City Rovers, Louisville, Kentucky, United States
- Rochedale Rovers Football Club, Queensland, Australia
- Shamrock Rovers F.C., Dublin, Ireland
- Sligo Rovers F.C., Sligo, Ireland
- Tampines Rovers FC, Singapore
- Taringa Rovers Soccer Football Club, Brisbane, Australia
- Tranmere Rovers F.C., Birkenhead, England
Other sports uses
- Featherstone Rovers, a rugby league club in Featherstone, United Kingdom
- Hull Kingston Rovers, a rugby league club in Kingston Upon Hull, United Kingdom
- Richmond Rovers, a rugby league club based in Grey Lynn, New Zealand
- Ilen Rovers, a Gaelic football club in County Cork, Ireland
- Rovers Football Club, a defunct Australian rules football club
- Radio Rovers, the official radio station of the English Championship football side Blackburn Rovers FC
- Rover (ice hockey), a long-defunct ice hockey position
- "Rover" (song), a sports cheer at the University of California Los Angeles
- Rover, a position in Australian rules football
Fiction
- Rover (robot dog), a character on Lunar Jim always helping on Jim's missions
- Rover (The Prisoner), a fictional device in the 1967 British television program The Prisoner
- Rover, the US title of They Came on Viking Ships, a children's novel by Jackie French
- Rover, main character in the novella Roverandom by J.R.R. Tolkien
People
- Elena Rover (born 1966), digital strategy consultant in the New York area
- Jolanda de Rover (born 1963), former backstroke swimmer from the Netherlands
- Rover Thomas (c. 1920–1998), Indigenous Australian artist
Places
Other uses
- Rover (Beanie Baby), dog character available from 1996–1998
- Rover chair, designed by industrial designer Ron Arad
- Rover Coaches, an Australian bus company operating services in the Hunter Valley
- Rover (fish), common name for fish in the Emmelichthyidae family
- Rover (lawnmower), Australian brand of lawnmower
- Rover (ticket), a type of bus or train ticket issued in the UK
- ROVER, a military system that receives video images from aircraft
- Rover, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
- Rover.com (website), a Seattle-based company selling pet services
- Rovers (Australia), the fifth and final youth section of Scouts Australia
- The Rover (story paper), a British boys' story paper which started in 1922
- The Rovers, informal name for the Rovers Return Inn, a fictonal pub in British soap opera Coronation Street
See also
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Sunday, April 10, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.