Skyhook

Skyhook, sky hook or skyhooks may refer to:

Fiction

• Sky Hook, a Hugo Award–nominated science fiction fanzine
• Sky Hook (film), a 1999 Yugoslavian film
• 'Skyhooks' and 'Skyhooks II', parts 1 and 8, respectively, of the Adventure Time Elements miniseries
• 'Sky hook', a "non-existent" item commonly requested in a construction industry fool's errand
• Sky-Hook, the player's melee weapon in the 2013 video game BioShock Infinite

Music

• "Skyhook", a song by Dance Gavin Dance from their 2008 album Dance Gavin Dance
• Skyhooks (band), an Australian rock band

Science

• Skyhook (concept), an explanation of design complexity that does not build on lower, simpler layers

Sports

• Skyhook (boarding), a binding used in skateboarding and related sports
• Skyhook (climbing), a hook used in technical climbing
• Skyhook (skydiving), a device for quickly extracting reserve parachutes
• Skyhook (tennis), a version of the overhead smash
• Hook shot, variant, the signature shot of Basketball Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Technology

• Skyhook (cable), a hypothetical device used to lift an object on a long cable hanging from the sky
• Skyhook (skydiving), a type of main-assisted reserve parachute deployment system
• Skyhook (structure), a space elevator concept
• Skyhook balloon, a type of unmanned balloon used by the United States Navy in the late 1940s and in the 1950s for atmospheric research
• SkyHook JHL-40, an experimental combination airship/helicopter in development by Boeing
• Skyhook theory, a theory used in some automobile suspensions
• Skyhook Wireless, a technology company that invented hybrid location positioning
• Airco DH.6, nicknamed Skyhook, an early (1916) ab initio trainer aircraft
• Australian Autogyro Skyhook, also known as the Minty Skyhook Mini Chopper
• Cessna CH-1 Skyhook, a helicopter produced in the early 1960s
• Fulton surface-to-air recovery system, nicknamed Skyhook, a retrieval method by which a flying aircraft picks up a payload
• a system used to launch and recover parasite planes from airships; see Curtiss F9C Sparrowhawk