Giant
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Giant or Giants may refer to:
- Giant (mythology), especially tall mythological creatures or monsters
- Giant (Dungeons & Dragons), a type of creature in the Dungeons & Dragons role playing game
- A person with gigantism, or a human who is unusually tall
In business:
- Giant Manufacturing, a bicycle manufacturer
- Giant Food, two distinct supermarket chains in the Mid-Atlantic part of the United States
- GIANT Company Software, an internet security software developer
- Giant Hypermarket, hypermarket chain in Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia
In geography
- Giant's Causeway, an area of 40,000 interlocking basalt columns resulting from a volcanic eruption. Northern Ireland, UK
- Cerne Abbas giant
In entertainment and media:
- Giant (film), a 1956 film directed by George Stevens
- Giants: Citizen Kabuto, a computer game
- Giant (band), an American hair metal band
- Giant (Stan Rogers song), a song by Canadian folk singer Stan Rogers
- Giant (magazine), a bi-monthly men's magazine
- André the Giant, an actor and French professional wrestler
- Paul Wight, an American professional wrestler who used the name The Giant in WCW
- Giant animal (fiction), giant animals of fiction
- Giant Records (1990), a record label
- Giant Records (independent label), a record label
- The Giants, the planned but unmade first serial of Doctor Who
In sports:
- Giant (gymnastics) - A common skill on the uneven bars.
- Belfast Giants, an EIHL ice hockey team
- Gold Coast-Tweed Giants, Australian rugby league team
- Huddersfield Giants, a rugby league team competing in Super League
- New York Giants, NFL American football team
- Lotte Giants, a South Korean professional baseball team
- Purefoods Tender Juicy Giants, a Philippine Basketball Association team
- San Francisco Giants, National League baseball team
- Vancouver Giants, a WHL hockey team
- Yomiuri Giants, a Japanese professional baseball team, featured in the Star of the Giants anime
Other:
- Giant animal (mythology), giant animals of mythology
- Megafauna, giant animals in science
- Giant star, a star that is 10 to 100 times as big as our sun
- Giant's Cave Western Australia
- The Gigantes of Classical mythology.
- Vincenzo Gigante, mafioso
- The figures of Gigantes y cabezudos in Spain.
- Sábado Gigante ("Giant Saturday"), a Spanish American TV program.
Loius Farmer