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Grand slam (baseball)
Grand slam (baseball): a home run hit with the bases loaded, scoring four runs with four RBIs. First recorded by Roger Connor in 1881; career record 25 (Alex Rodriguez), single-season record six (Mattingly, Hafner).
Grand Slam (bomb)
The Grand Slam, nicknamed Ten Ton Tess, was a 22,000 lb British deep-penetration earthquake bomb of World War II, devised by Barnes Wallis and first used in March 1945.
Grand Slam (Formula One)
Grand Slam (Grand Chelem) in Formula One: pole position, race win, fastest lap, and leading every lap in one weekend. First by Fangio, Monaco 1950; Jim Clark holds the record with eight.
Grand Slam (golf)
Grand Slam (golf): winning all major championships in one year or a career. Bobby Jones's 1930 original four events; modern Masters, PGA, U.S. Open, Open Championship; six men's career winners including McIlroy 2025; Tiger Slam; LPGA seven.
Grand Slam (professional wrestling)
The Grand Slam in professional wrestling is a career achievement of winning a promotion's world, secondary singles, and tag team championships, first completed by Shawn Michaels in 1997.
Grand Slam (rugby union)
Grand Slam (rugby union): winning all five matches in one Six Nations Championship; distinct from the Triple Crown. Wales won the first in 1908; England lead with 13; Ireland were the latest, in 2023.
Grand Slam (tennis)
Grand Slam (tennis): the four majors, Australian Open, Roland Garros, Wimbledon, and US Open, plus the calendar-year sweep first achieved by Don Budge in 1938; 2000 ranking points, equal prize money since 2007.
Grand Slam Australia (2026)
Grand Slam Australia (2026) was an All Elite Wrestling television special held in Sydney, Australia, on February 14, 2026. MJF defeated Brody King to retain the AEW World Championship.
Grand Slam draw structure and seeding
Grand Slam draw structure and seeding explains how the four majors fill their 128-player singles draws with direct entries, qualifiers, and wild cards, and place 32 seeds.
Grand Slam Mexico (2026)
Grand Slam Mexico (2026): second AEW Grand Slam: Mexico, a special Dynamite at Arena México, Mexico City, August 5, 2026; Ospreay beat Davis in a street fight, MJF returned, Page and Brodido won the Trios titles; 694,000 viewers.
Grand Slam of Curling
Grand Slam of Curling (GSOC): annual elite series of men's and women's curling events, majors on the tour circuit; $2.1 million season prize money, equal purses since 2015, owned by The Curling Group since 2024.
Grand Slam of Darts
Grand Slam of Darts: PDC major darts tournament held each November in Wolverhampton since 2007, also called the Eric Bristow Trophy event. Unique group-stage format, 32 players rising to 48 in 2026; Phil Taylor won six titles, Luke Littler the 2024 and 2025 editions.
Grand Slam of Show Jumping
Rolex Grand Slam of Show Jumping: series of four Majors (Dutch Masters, CHIO Aachen, Spruce Meadows 'Masters', CHI Geneva), launched 2013. Winning three consecutive Grand Prix earns €1m; only Scott Brash (2015) has done it.
Grand Slam qualifying competition
Grand Slam qualifying is a single-elimination tennis tournament held in the days before each of the four Grand Slams, where 128 players outside direct entry range play three rounds for 16 places in the main draw.
Grand Slam Track
Grand Slam Track (GST) is Michael Johnson's professional track-only athletics league, launched in 2025 with Kingston, Miami, and Philadelphia meets, $100,000 first prizes, and a 2026 season on hold over unpaid prize money.
Grand Staircase
The Grand Staircase is a 100-mile sequence of sedimentary rock layers in southern Utah and northern Arizona, ascending from the Grand Canyon to Bryce Canyon.
Grand Steeple-Chase de Paris
Grand Steeple-Chase de Paris (Défi des Haras), France's premier Group 1 steeplechase, run each May at Auteuil over 6,000 m with 23 fences; first run 1874, prize €820,000.
Grand strategy
Grand strategy: the highest level of national statecraft, coordinating military, diplomatic, political, and economic instruments of power to secure a state's perceived interests; contested concept with a debated history.
Grand Tack hypothesis
The Grand Tack hypothesis is a 2011 model of early Solar System evolution in which Jupiter migrated inward to about 1.5 AU, then reversed course and returned outward.
Grand Teton
Grand Teton, highest peak of Wyoming's Teton Range at 13,770 ft in Grand Teton National Park; also called Les Trois Tetons. Known for 2.7-billion-year-old gneiss, Teton fault uplift, 1898 first ascent, and classic climbing routes.
Grand Teton National Park
Grand Teton National Park, in northwestern Wyoming, protects the Teton Range, Jackson Hole, and the Snake River. Created 1929, expanded 1950; 310,044 acres; Grand Teton peak 13,770 feet; over 2 million annual visitors.
Grand Theft Auto
Grand Theft Auto (GTA) is Rockstar Games' open-world action-adventure franchise under Take-Two, with over 470 million units sold-in; GTA V (2013) earned $1 billion in three days, and GTA VI launches November 19, 2026 on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S.
Grand Theft Auto (film)
Grand Theft Auto (1977) is Ron Howard's feature directorial debut, a Roger Corman New World car-chase comedy starring Howard and Nancy Morgan as elopers chased from Los Angeles to Las Vegas; shot in 23 days on about $602,000.
Grand Theft Auto (video game)
Grand Theft Auto (1997), aka Race'n'Chase, is DMA Design's top-down crime game that started the GTA series, set in Liberty City, San Andreas, and Vice City, controversial in Parliament and later owned by Rockstar.
Grand Theft Auto 2
Grand Theft Auto 2 (GTA2), DMA Design, October 1999, top-down open-world crime game and second main GTA entry. Single city in three districts, seven gangs with a respect-based payphone mission system, retro-futuristic setting, Metacritic 70.
Grand Theft Auto III
Grand Theft Auto III (GTA 3, GTA III) is Rockstar's October 22, 2001 PlayStation 2 open-world action game, the first full-3D series entry, set in Liberty City and credited with defining the modern 3D open-world genre.
Grand Theft Auto IV
Grand Theft Auto IV, also known as GTA 4, is a 2008 open-world action-adventure game by Rockstar North set in a fictional Liberty City based on New York City.
Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned
Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned (TLAD) is Rockstar's first GTA IV DLC episode, released 17 February 2009 on Xbox 360, starring biker Johnny Klebitz of The Lost, with 22 missions, six new weapons, and a Metacritic 90.
Grand Theft Auto Online
Grand Theft Auto Online (GTA Online) is Rockstar's persistent multiplayer open world launched October 1, 2013 inside GTA V; up to 30 players, heists, businesses, over $1 billion annual microtransactions, still updated ahead of GTA VI.
Grand Theft Auto V
Grand Theft Auto V (GTA 5, GTA V) is Rockstar North's 2013 open-world action-adventure game set in Los Santos, with protagonists Franklin, Michael, and Trevor and GTA Online; it earned $1 billion in three days and remains the third-best selling video game.