Skyhook

Skyhook, sky hook or skyhooks may refer to:

Fiction

• Sky Hook, a Hugo-award nominated science fiction fanzine
• Sky Hook (film), a 1999 Yugoslavian film
• skyhook, mechanical device used to operate The Great Glass Elevator in Roald Dahl's childrens books

Music

• Skyhooks (band), an Australian rock band

Science

• Skyhook (concept), an explanation of design complexity in the universe that does not build on lower, simpler layers

Sports

• Hook shot, nicknamed skyhook, a basketball shot popularized by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
• Skyhook (boarding), a binding used in skateboarding and related sports
• Skyhook (climbing), a hook used in technical climbing
• Skyhook (skydiving), a device for quickly extracting reserve parachutes
• Skyhook (tennis), a smash in which the Eastern grip used to hit the ball further behind the body than is normally possible

Technology

• Airco DH.6, nicknamed Skyhook, an early (1916) ab initio trainer aircraft
• Australian Autogyro Skyhook, also known as the Minty Skyhook Mini Chopper
• Cessna CH-1, nicknamed Cessna Skyhook, a helicopter produced in the early 1960s by the Cessna Aircraft company that was marketed to the civil sector
• Fulton surface-to-air recovery system, nicknamed Skyhook, a retrieval method by which a flying aircraft picks up a payload
• a hook that clamps to the rungs of a non-extension type ladder which can then be "hooked" over the peak of a roof to use the ladder as a staircase on steep pitched roofs by a roofer
• Skyhook (cable), an imaginary device used to lift an object on a long cable hanging from the sky
• Skyhook (structure), a space elevator concept
• Skyhook balloon, a type of unmanned balloon used by the United States Navy in the late 1940s and in the 1950s for atmospheric research
• SkyHook JHL-40, an experimental combination airship/helicopter in development by Boeing, primarily for low impact logging
• Skyhook (skydiving), a type of main-assisted reserve parachute deployment system
• Skyhook theory, a theory used in some automobile suspensions
• Skyhook Wireless, a technology company that invented hybrid location positioning