Skyhook
# 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

## 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
