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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 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 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 (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.
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars is a 2009 action-adventure game by Rockstar Leeds and Rockstar North, released for the Nintendo DS before coming to PSP, iOS, and Android.
Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories
Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, 2005 Rockstar North/Leeds PSP prequel to GTA III starring Toni Cipriani of the Leone family; Metacritic 88, first GTA online multiplayer, later on PS2, iOS, Android.
Grand Theft Auto: London 1969
Grand Theft Auto: London 1969 is a 1999 mission pack expansion to the original GTA, developed by Rockstar Canada and published by Rockstar Games, set in a 14-area 1960s London with 32 missions, 12 radio stations, and a BAFTA-winning soundtrack.
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (GTA SA) is Rockstar North's 2004 open-world action-adventure game starring Carl "CJ" Johnson in Los Santos, San Fierro, and Las Venturas; it sold over 12 million copies, scored 95 on Metacritic, and triggered the Hot Coffee rating controversy.
Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony
Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony (TBoGT) is the second GTA IV expansion by Rockstar North, released October 29, 2009 on Xbox 360 and in Episodes from Liberty City, starring Luis Lopez, bodyguard of nightclub owner Tony Prince, with parachutes and over-the-top missions.
Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition
Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition is Rockstar's 2021 Unreal Engine remaster of GTA III, Vice City, and San Andreas by Grove Street Games, released November 11, 2021 to poor reviews and a public apology over launch bugs.
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002), Rockstar North's open-world action-adventure set in a 1980s Miami-inspired city, stars Tommy Vercetti; Metacritic 95, 2002 PS2 Game of the Year, top-selling game of 2002.
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories is a 2006 Rockstar Leeds/Rockstar North open-world action game for PSP, later ported to PS2. A 1984-set prequel to Vice City starring Victor Vance, it introduced the series' empire-building mechanic.
Grand Tour (cycling)
Grand Tour (cycling): the Tour de France, Giro d'Italia, and Vuelta a España, three-week UCI stage races of 21 stages decided on cumulative time, with jerseys, prize money, and physiology distinct from all other road races.