Rover

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Rover may refer to:

Contents 1 Vehicles 1.1 Land 1.2 Space exploration 2 Sport 2.1 Football (Soccer) Teams 2.2 Other Sports 3 Other 4 See also

[edit] Vehicles

[edit] Land

• Rover (bicycle), originating in 1885, the first recognizably modern bicycle
• Rover Company, a former British car manufacturing company and originator of the Rover and Land Rover car brands, later a subsidiary of British Leyland
• Austin Rover Group, a car manufacturing division of British Leyland
• Rover Group, a former British vehicle manufacturing group, the successor to British Leyland
• MG Rover Group, a former British car manufacturing company formed from the remnants of the Rover Group after its split-up by BMW
• Freight Rover, the light commercial vehicle manufacturing division of BL, later privatised and becoming LDV
• Land Rover, a British all-terrain utility vehicles company, founded by the Rover Company under the ownership of BL
• Rover Light Armoured Car, an armoured car built in Australia during the Second World War
• Rover class, a famous class of Great Western Railway broad gauge steam locomotives

[edit] Space exploration

• Lunar Rover, moon exploration vehicle
• Mars Exploration Rover Mission, Mars exploration vehicle
• Rover (space exploration), any exploration vehicle that moves across the surface of an astronomical body.

[edit] Sport

[edit] Football (Soccer) Teams

Various football (soccer) teams with "Rovers" in their name include:

• Albion Rovers F.C., Coatbridge, Scotland
• Albion Rovers F.C. (Wales), Newport
• Blackburn Rovers F.C., Blackburn, England
• Blackpool Wren Rovers F.C., Lancashire, England
• Bristol Rovers F.C., Bristol, England
• Doncaster Rovers F.C., Doncaster, England
• Forest Green Rovers F.C., Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, England
• Paulton Rovers F.C., near Bristol, England
• Raith Rovers F.C., Kirkcaldy, Scotland
• Rochedale Rovers Football Club, Logan City, 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. Prenton, Birkenhead, England

[edit] Other Sports

• Hull Kingston Rovers rugby league club, Kingston Upon Hull, United Kingdom
• Softball rover, field position
• "Rover", in American Football the Defensive back
• "Rover", one of the Followers in Australian rules Football
• Rover (ice hockey), long-defunct ice hockey position
• Rover (song), the UCLA cheer

[edit] Other

• Rover class tanker
• Rover (lawnmower), iconic Australian lawnmower brand
• Rover (ticket), public transport ticket
• Rover Scouts, age section in many Scouting associations
• Rover (The Prisoner), the floating white sphere that captured would-be escapees in the TV series The Prisoner
• ROVER Remotely Operated Video Enhanced Receiver, a military system which sends sensor images from aircraft to ground troops
• Rover, a character in the Animal Crossing video game series
• Rovers Return Inn, a fictional public house in the ITV1 soap opera Coronation Street
• Rovers Morning Glory, a syndicated radio show hosted by Shane "Rover" French
• Red Rover, a game
• Rover, the main character of J.R.R. Tolkien's book Roverandom
• Rover, a boys' comic book published in the UK in the 1940s consisting of adventure stories for reading rather than as cartoons. It was merged with the Wizard in 1963
• Rover, a common name for a dog

[edit] See also

• The Rover, referring to a novel, song, play or ship