Grand Slam is a general sports term applied when achieving something special. The term originated in bridge, but has come to be applied to remarkable feats in many different sports, especially winning all of a sport's "major" events in a given year. Generally a "Grand Slam" is associated with achieving at least four feats simultaneously or in succession; achievements of three of a kind are typically termed Triple Crowns or hat-tricks instead. Bridge (card game) may mean: Contract bridge, the most common form of Bridge. ... The Triple Crown is a term sometimes used to describe the three-tiered crown or tiara formerly used by popes. ... In sports, a hat-trick (more often rendered in North America as hat trick, without the hyphen) is associated with achieving something in a group of three. ...

Most common uses:

• Grand slam (baseball), a home run with all the bases occupied
• Grand Slam (cyclo-cross), winning the following titles in the same calendar year: World and National Championships, the Superprestige, the GvA Trophy, and holding the No. 1 spot on the UCI rakings.
• Grand Slam (tennis) discusses the variations, including True Grand Slam, Career Grand Slam, Golden Slam and Small Slam.
• Grand Slam of golf, winning the following four tournaments in the same year: The Masters, US Open, The British Open, PGA Championship
• A Grand Slam can completed in two ways in rugby union:
  • In the Rugby Union Six Nations Championship, a grand slam is where one team beats all their opponents during the Six Nations Championship
  • A touring team manages to beat all four home nations (England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland).

see also Grand Slam (Rugby Union)

• In NASCAR, the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, at the 1984 championship banquet, announced a $1,000,000 bonus, which ran from 1985 until 1997, if a driver won a small slam of three of the four majors: The Daytona 500 (richest), Winston 500 (the fastest -- now Aaron's 499), Coca-Cola 600 (the longest), and the Southern 500 (the oldest -- race discontinued after 2004 after Ferko lawsuit settlement). While the program was discontinued after 1997, the four races were known as the Grand Slam for many years. The Grand Slam was discontinued after the Ferko lawsuit forced NASCAR to discontinue the Mountain Dew Southern 500.
• In contract bridge, it is bidding for and winning all the tricks in one hand.
• In snooker, winning the Grand Slam is holding the following 8 titles at the same time: LG Cup, British Open, UK Championships, Irish Masters, Welsh Open, European Open, Players Championships and Embassy World Championship (Sheffield)
• In ski jumping, winning the Grand Slam is winning the Four Hills Tournament. These 4 tournaments are held in Oberstdorf, Garmisch-Partenkirchen (both in Germany), Innsbruck and Bischofshofen (both in Austria).
• In American professional sports, those cities which have at least one franchise in all four major professional sports leagues are said to have a Grand Slam. See U.S. cities with teams from four major sports.
• Grand Slam Champion of Professional Wrestling, winning the three major singles heavyweight championships and the Tag Team championships during a wrestler's career.
• In the Philippine Basketball Association, winning the Grand Slam is winning all 3 conferences at one calendar year. After the 2004-05 season, the league shifted to a 2-conference format; so starting the 2005-06 season, the grandslam will now be won when a team wins the 2 conferences at one calendar year. This definition has been expanded to other basketball tournaments such as the UAAP and the NCAA (Philippines), where a team needs to win three (instead of four) consecutive tournaments.

Other meanings: In baseball, a grand slam is a home run hit with all the bases occupied, thereby scoring 4 runs, which is the most possible on a single play. ... In tennis, a singles player or doubles team is said to have achieved the Grand Slam if they succeed in winning all four of the following championship titles in the same year: Australian Open French Open Wimbledon US Open These tournaments are therefore also known as the Grand Slam tournaments. ... The Grand Slam of golf consists of four major golfing events held each year; the events are often referred to as the major tournaments and are all recognized as a part of the worlds two most prestigious tours, the PGA TOUR in the United States and the PGA European... Image from a test-match between Ireland and the New Zealand All Blacks. ... The Six Nations Championship (referred to as RBS 6 Nations for sponsorship reasons), (2000-) formerly known as the Five Nations Championship, is an annual international rugby union competition held between six European sides; England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales. ... A Grand Slam can completed in two ways in rugby union. ... The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) is the largest sanctioning body of motorsports in the United States. ... NASCAR Realignment refers to current changes in the schedule of NASCARs Nextel Cup Series. ... The Mountain Dew Southern 500 was a 500 mile (805 km) NASCAR Nextel Cup race. ... Contract bridge, usually known simply as bridge, is a trick-taking card game for four players, usually sitting around a table, who form two partnerships, or sides. The partners on each side sit opposite one another. ... Snooker table Snooker is a billiards sport that is played on a large (12 × 6) baize-covered table with pockets in each of the four corners and in the middle of each of the long cushions. ... Ski jumping is a winter sport in which skiers go down a hill with a take-off ramp (the jump), attempting to go as far as possible. ... The Four Hills Tournament (Vierschanzentournee) is composed of four Ski Jumping World Cup events and has taken place in Germany and Austria each year since 1952. ... Professional sports are sports in which the participants receive payment for playing, as opposed to amateur sports where they are not. ... In the United States (or the U.S. and Canada by some definitions), the major professional sports leagues are those three or four professional sports leagues with the largest fan bases and television audiences (and therefore, the largest revenues and player salaries). ... In the United States, the four prominent major professional sports leagues are: Major League Baseball (MLB) National Football League (NFL) National Basketball Association (NBA) National Hockey League (NHL) There are currently 13 metropolitan areas that have at least one team in each major sports league. ... A Grand Slam Champion in professional wrestling is a distinction made to a professional wrestler who has won all of the major titles in a promotion. ... The Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) is a professional basketball league in the Philippines founded in 1975. ... The University Athletics Association of the Philippines (UAAP) is a sports association of eight universities in the Philippines. ... The NCAA logo. ...

• The four biggest beauty pageants are collectively known as the Big Four, when a country wins more than one of these in a single year, it is usually dubbed by the press as a Grand Slam.
• In acting, Grand Slam may roughly refer to an actor or actress winning major awards in the same category.
• Grand Slam bomb was a larger version of the Tallboy bunker buster bomb developed by Barnes Wallis in World War II for the Royal Air Force
• Grand slam (TV), a quiz-show shown in the UK in 2003. Contestants had to pay £1,000 to take part.
• Grand Slam (album) by Australian band Spiderbait
• Grand slam (Denny's), a popular, low price breakfast at U.S. restaurant chain Denny's
• Grand slam (movie), A 1978 Welsh TV movie comedy, starring Windsor Davies and Sion Probert
• Operation Grand Slam: A plan by Auric Goldfinger to "heist" Fort Knox