rover

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Rover or rovers may refer to:

Music

• Rover, a Norwegian rock band

Land travel

Leyland companies

• Rover Company (1885-1967), a British motorcycle and car manufacturing company, absorbed into Leyland Motor Corporation in 1967
• Austin Rover Group (1982-1989), a mass-market car manufacturing subsidiary of Leyland
• Land Rover Group (1981-1987), a light commercial vehicle division of Leyland
• Freight Rover (1981-1986), a commercial van/truck manufacturing division of Leyland

Rover and MG companies

• Rover Group (1986-2000), the new name given to Leyland in 1986 after the company divested its other divisions, later sold to BMW
• MG Rover Group (2000-2005), a company formed in 2000 when BMW sold most of the Rover Group to the Phoenix Consortium

Other companies

• Land Rover, a 4x4, SUV and all-terrain vehicle manufacturer sold by BMW to Ford in 2000, and now owned by Tata Motors

Automobiles and locomotives

• Rover Light Armoured Car, a WWII Australian vehicle unrelated to the Rover Company
• GWR Rover class, a class of locomotives
• Rover was one of the GWR 3031 Class locomotives that were built for and run on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915.

Air and space travel

• Rover (space exploration), a vehicle that explores the surface of an astronomical body
• Lunar rover
• Mars Exploration Rover

Water travel

• Rover (log canoe)
• Rover (barque)
• Rover class tanker, a class of ships
• HMS Rover, the name of seven ships of the Royal Navy

Sports

Football (Soccer) teams

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

Other sports uses

• Featherstone Rovers, a rugby league club in Featherstone, United Kingdom
• Hull Kingston Rovers, a rugby league club in Kingston Upon Hull, United Kingdom
• Rover (ice hockey), a long-defunct ice hockey position
• "Rover" (song), a sports cheer at the University of California Los Angeles
• Rovers Football Club, a defunct Australian rules football club
• A position in the game of softball
• One of the followers in Australian rules football
• An alternate name for the strong safety in American football

Fictional uses

• Rover (The Prisoner), a fictional floating white sphere
• Rover (comic), a comic book series featuring the character Alf Tupper
• Rover, the protagonist of the novella "Roverandom"
• Rover, the US title of They Came on Viking Ships, a children's historical novel

Other uses

• Rover (Beanie Baby)
• Rover (fish)
• Rover (lawnmower)
• Rover (ticket)
• ROVER, a military system that transmits images from aircraft
• Rover Scout, a Scouting service division
• Swagman, a class of Australian transient temporary workers
• An animated "search companion" in the Windows Explorer file browser

See also

• The Rover (disambiguation)

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