Big Dipper (disambiguation)
The Big/Great Dipper is the American English term for the seven brightest stars of Ursa Major (The Plough in British English).
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Big Dipper also may refer to:
Entertainment
- Big Dipper (Battersea Park), a wooden roller coaster operating in Battersea Park, London, England, from 1951 until 1972
- Big Dipper (Blackpool), a wooden roller coaster at Blackpool Pleasure Beach, England
- Big Dipper (Geauga Lake), a wooden roller coaster formerly at the now defunct Geauga Lake Park in Ohio, US
- Big Dipper (Luna Park Sydney), a wooden roller coaster operating at Luna Park Sydney, Australia from 1935 until 1981
- Big Dipper (Michigan's Adventure), a steel roller coaster in Michigan, US
- Cyclone (Dreamworld), a steel roller coaster which operated as Big Dipper at Luna Park Sydney, Australia from 1995 to 2001
Sport
- Wilt Chamberlain (1936–1999), American basketball player
- Robert DiPierdomenico (born 1958), Australian rules footballer
- Chris Duncan (born 1981), American baseball player
Music
- Big Dipper (band), a 1980s-1990s Boston alternative-rock band
- Big Dipper (album), a 2003 album by Drop Trio
- The Great Dipper (album), a 2015 album by Roy Kim
- Big Dipper (Elton John song), a 1978 song by Elton John
- "Big Dipper", a song by Jethro Tull from their 1976 album Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die!
- "Big Dipper", a song by Built to Spill from their 1994 album There's Nothing Wrong with Love
- "Big Dipper", a song by Cracker from their 1996 album The Golden Age (Cracker album)
- "Big Dipper", a song by Death Grips from their 2014 album The Powers That B
Other uses
- Big Dipper Ice Arena, in Fairbanks, Alaska
See also
- Beidou (disambiguation), Chinese equivalent of the asterism
- Little Dipper (disambiguation)
- Starry Plough (disambiguation)
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