Gauntlet
Appearance
Gauntlet or the gauntlet may refer to:
Common uses
- Gauntlet (glove), protective gloves used as a form of armor
- 14th-century gauntlet, a well-preserved and nearly-intact example found in Switzerland
- Running the gauntlet, a form of physical punishment
Arts, entertainment, and media
Fictional characters
- Gauntlet (comics), a Marvel Comics superhero
- Gauntlet (Inhuman), a Marvel Comics supervillain
Games
- Gauntlet (1985 video game), a 1985 four-player arcade game with many followups:
- Gauntlet II, a 1986 arcade sequel
- Gauntlet: The Third Encounter, a 1990 game for the Atari Lynx
- Gauntlet III: The Final Quest, a 1991 home computer game
- Gauntlet IV, a 1994 video game for the Sega Genesis
- Gauntlet Legends, a 1998 arcade game
- Gauntlet Dark Legacy, a 2000 arcade game
- Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows, a 2005 video game
- Gauntlet (2014 video game), developed by Arrowhead Game studios
- Gauntlet (Nintendo DS), an unreleased remake of the first game
- Gauntlet (Donald R. Lebeau video game), a 1984 shoot 'em up game for the Atari 8-bit family
- Gauntlet (Micro Power video game), a 1984 Defender clone
- The Gauntlet (module), an adventure module for Dungeons & Dragons
- The Gauntlet (tabletop games producer), a publisher/producer of tabletop role-playing games and podcasts
Television
Series
- Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Gauntlet (2003–2004), an MTV reality television game show series
- Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Gauntlet II (2005–2006), an MTV reality television game show series
- Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Gauntlet III (2008), an MTV reality television game show series
Episodes
- "Gauntlet" (Stargate Universe), an episode of Stargate Universe
- "The Gauntlet" (Supergirl), an episode of Supergirl
- "The Gauntlet", an episode of Ben 10: Alien Force
- "The Gauntlet", an episode of MacGyver
- "The Gauntlet", the name given to the twelfth season of Mystery Science Theater 3000
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
- Gauntlet (newspaper), published by students at the University of Calgary
- "The Gauntlet" (comics), a Spider-Man storyline
- The Gauntlet (film), a 1977 film starring Clint Eastwood and Sondra Locke
- The Gauntlet (novel), a 1951 children's book written by Ronald Welch
- Iron Man: The Gauntlet, a 2016 children's book written by Eoin Colfer
- RVR-01 "Gauntlet", a fighter craft in the game Thunder Force V
Sports
- Gauntlet for the Gold, a professional wrestling match type exclusive to TNA Wrestling
- Gauntlet match, a professional wrestling match type
Other uses
- Gauntlet (body piercing studio), a former California-based company, closed in 1998
- Gauntlet track, a type of railroad track
- Gloster Gauntlet, a British biplane
- SA-15 "Gauntlet", a Soviet surface-to-air missile