Grand Slam

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Grand Slam or Grand slam may refer to:

Sports and games

Grand Slam (NASCAR) (officially 1985–2002/2003, unofficially 1970–2004), winning all of NASCAR's Sprint Cup Series majors in a calendar year
Grand Slam (Formula One) in Formula One racing, winning a race from pole while leading every lap and scoring the fastest lap

Grand slam (baseball), home run with all three bases occupied, thereby scoring four runs on one play (the maximum)

Slam or grand slam are contracts to win at least twelve (slam or small slam) or all thirteen (grand slam) tricks in the card game bridge

Grand Slam Chess Association (from 2008?), series of major annual chess tournaments
Grand Slam Masters Final, or Bilbao Chess Masters Final (from 2008), a culminating annual chess tournament

Grand Slam (horse) (1995–2012), American thoroughbred racehorse
Grand Slam of Thoroughbred racing, four particular races (see also Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing)
- Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, Belmont Stakes, and Breeder's Cup Classic (colts or fillies)
- Kentucky Oaks, Black-Eye Susan Stakes, Acorn Stakes, and Breeder's Cup Distaff (fillies)
- An equivalent series of four races in National Hunt Racing in the UK
Equestrian Grand Slam
- Grand Slam of Eventing (from 1998), three particular world horse trials competitions; also one rider consecutively winning all three of them
- Grand Slam of Show Jumping (from 2013), one rider winning all three major annual competitions consecutively

Grand Slam (golf) (in use from 1930), one player winning all four major annual golf tournaments
PGA Grand Slam of Golf (from 1979), annual off-season men's golf competition

Grand Slam (tennis) (in use from 1933), one player or pair winning all four major annual tennis tournaments; also a nickname for each of the major tournaments
Pepsi Grand Slam (1976–1981), annual men's professional tennis tournament
Grand Slam Cup (1990–1999), annual international tennis tournament
Grand Slam (real tennis) (from 1990), a player or pair winning all four major annual real tennis tournaments

Capital One Grand Slam of Curling (from 2001), series of annual curling bonspiels that is a subset of the World Curling Tour
Grand Slam (PBA) (from 1975), one team winning all three major annual Philippine Basketball Association tournaments in a single season
Grand Slam (rugby union) (first 1908), one national team defeating all others in the annual rugby union series now called Six Nations Championship
Grand Slam (professional wrestling), various achievements defined by winning four specific professional wrestling championships
Grand Slam of Ultrarunning (from 1986), Award for one registered person finishing the four specified annual 100-mile footraces in the U.S.
Grand Slam (shinty) (from 1947), one club winning four specific annual shinty trophies
Explorers Grand Slam or Adventurers Grand Slam, one person reaching the North Pole, the South Pole, and all of the Seven Summits during an adventuring career, first completed in 1998
Grand Slam (Fly-Fishing Caribbean), one angler catching a bonefish, tarpon, and permit during one day of Caribbean fly-fishing; one of four three-species Inshore Grand Slams defined by the International Game Fish Association
In Roller derby, a grand slam is a five-point scoring pass (four for each blocker and a fifth for the jammer), most commonly scored when the jammer is serving a penalty.

Grand Slam of Hollywood show business, also called the EGOT, or winning Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Awards in an American entertainment career
Grand Slam of Philippine film industry, winning awards from the four major film award-giving bodies in a year in a category.
Grand Slam of Vogue covers, appearing in the covers of the four longest running editions (American, British, French and Italian) of the women's fashion magazine. Term originally cited by Linda Evangelista.

Operation Grand Slam, a plan to steal the U.S. gold reserves from Fort Knox in the 1959 James Bond novel Goldfinger by Ian Fleming

Grand Slam (1933 film), a 1933 American comedy film
Grand Slam (1967 film), 1967 Italian heist movie
50 Grand Slam, 1976 US game show
Grand Slam (1978 film), 1978 Welsh TV comedy movie
Grand Slam (G.I. Joe) (introduced 1982), soldier character in the G.I. Joe universe, originally in comics and toys
Grand Slam (1990 TV series), 1990 American action series
Grand Slam (UK game show), 2003 British quiz show
Grand Slam (U.S. game show), 2007 American remake of the 2003 British show
Grandslam (Transformers), micro-cassette tank character in the Transformers franchise

Juice Leskinen Grand Slam (1981–1991), a Finnish rock band formed by Juice Leskinen
Grand Slam (The Isley Brothers album), 1981 album by the Isley Brothers
Grand Slam (Magic Slim album), 1983 album by Magic Slim
Grand Slam (band) (1984–1985), band formed by Thin Lizzy bassist and vocalist Phil Lynott
Grand Slam (Spiderbait album), 1999 album by Australian band Spiderbait

There are four grand slam titles. Referring to the most sought after crowns, the most number of participants, and most publicized pageants worldwide: Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss International, and Miss Earth only.

Grand Slam (bomb), 10-tonne British "earthquake bomb" of World War II
Grand Slam Installation, modification of the 1946 US airplane B-36 as the B-36B capable of delivering nuclear weapons from 1949
Exercise Grand Slam, 1952 NATO naval exercise in the Mediterranean Sea
Operation Grand Slam, 1960 US espionage mission over the Soviet Union (1960 U-2 incident)
Operation Grand Slam, Pakistan Army offensive plan during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965

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