Sleeper
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A sleeper is a person who is sleep
Sleep
Sleep is a naturally recurring state characterized by reduced or absent consciousness, relatively suspended sensory activity, and inactivity of nearly all voluntary muscles. It is distinguished from quiet wakefulness by a decreased ability to react to stimuli, and is more easily reversible than...

ing. It may also refer to:

Music

  • Sleeper (band)
    Sleeper (band)
    Sleeper were a British Britpop band in the 1990s fronted by Louise Wener. The band had eight UK Top 40 hit singles and three UK Top 10 albums. Their music was also featured in the soundtrack of Trainspotting.-Career:...

    , a Britpop band in the 1990s
  • The Sleepers (San Francisco band)
    The Sleepers (San Francisco band)
    The Sleepers was a San Francisco-based band, formed in 1978. They were one of the earliest punk bands in San Francisco, and later took on a darker, moodier post-punk sound, before breaking up in 1981....

    , a punk/post-punk band active from 1978 until 1981
  • The Sleepers (Chicago band), an American rock band formed in 2002
  • Sleepers (album)
    Sleepers (album)
    Sleepers is the solo album from Big Pooh of North Carolina's Little Brother. It followed on the heels of bandmate Phonte's album with The Foreign Exchange, Connected. The album features contributions and guest spots from Phonte, Nicolay, 9th Wonder and Los Angeles-based rapper Murs...

    , a solo album from rapper Big Pooh
  • Sleeper (Tribe album)
    Sleeper (Tribe album)
    - Band Line-Up :* Janet LaValley: vocals, rhythm guitar* Terri Barous: keyboard, backing vocals* Eric Brosius: lead guitar, backing vocals* Greg LoPiccolo: bass, backing vocals* David Penzo: drums, percussion...

    , by American alternative rock band Tribe
  • Sleeper (Godstar album)
    Sleeper (Godstar album)
    -Track listing:# "Ersatz"# "Bad Bad Implication"# "Little Bit About"# "Single"# "Everything You Give Me Breaks"# "Wigram"# "Forgotten Night"# "Lie Down Forever" -Track listing:# "Ersatz"# "Bad Bad Implication"# "Little Bit About"# "Single"# "Everything You Give Me Breaks"# "Wigram"# "Forgotten...

  • Sleeper (Everyday Sunday album)
    Sleeper (Everyday Sunday album)
    Sleeper is the first studio album by CCM band Everyday Sunday. This album was the band's only independently released album.-Track listing:#"Would You Leave"#"Sleeper"#"Wait"#"This Time"#"Just A Story"#"I Will Stand Up Now"#"You Are God"...


Films

  • Sleeper (film)
    Sleeper (film)
    Sleeper is a 1973 futuristic science fiction comedy film, written by Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman, and directed by Allen. The plot involves the adventures of the owner of a Greenwich Village, NY health food store played by Woody Allen who is cryogenically frozen in 1973 and defrosted 200...

    , a 1973 Woody Allen film
  • Sleeper (2005 film)
    Sleeper (2005 film)
    Sleeper is a 2005 Austrian-German drama film directed by Benjamin Heisenberg. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Bastian Trost - Johannes Mehrveldt* Mehdi Nebbou - Farid Atabay...

    , a 2005 Austrian/German film
  • Sleeper (2009 film)
    Sleeper (2009 film)
    Sleeper is an action horror film shot in Australia 2008 by writer/director Dru Brown and producer Judd Tilyard. It features Lord of the Rings actor Bruce Hopkins and professional wrestler Scott "Raven" Levy, best known for his stints in WCW, ECW, WWE, TNA and ROH. It is the second major film to...

    , an action/thriller film starring Scott Levy and Bruce Hopkins
  • Sleepers (film)
    Sleepers (film)
    Sleepers is a 1996 legal drama film written, produced, and directed by Barry Levinson, and based on Lorenzo Carcaterra's 1995 novel of the same name.-Plot:...

    , a 1996 film based on the novel by Lorenzo Carcaterra

Television

  • "Sleeper" (Buffy episode)
    Sleeper (Buffy episode)
    "Sleeper" is the eighth episode of the seventh and final season of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.-Plot synopsis:Spike digs a grave for and buries the woman he just killed while he hums a tune. In London, a man with a briefcase finds a young woman he knows lying dead...

    , from the seventh and final season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  • "Sleeper" (The New Avengers episode), from the first season of The New Avengers
  • "Sleeper" (Torchwood)
    Sleeper (Torchwood)
    "Sleeper" is the second episode of the second series of British science fiction television series Torchwood, which was first broadcast by BBC Two on 23 January 2008. A specially edited pre-watershed repeat was shown the following day.-Synopsis:...

    , an episode from Series 2 of the series Torchwood
  • "Sleepers" (Sanctuary), an episode fron the second season of Sanctuary
  • Sleepers (TV series)
    Sleepers (TV series)
    Sleepers is a 1991 comedy-drama produced by Cinema Verity for the BBC, set around the period of Glasnost in the Soviet Union.-Plot summary:...

    , a British comedy/drama
  • An extra-terrestrial in the U.S. TV series The Event

Other

  • Sleeper (comic book)
    Sleeper (comic book)
    Sleeper was a comic book series written by Ed Brubaker with art by Sean Phillips, published by DC Comics under their Wildstorm imprint. The series consisted of two twelve-issue limited series and the events of the first "season" served as a catalyst for the Coup D'Etat line-wide crossover.Sleeper...

    , published by DC Comics
  • Sleepers, a 1995 novel by Lorenzo Carcaterra
    Lorenzo Carcaterra
    Lorenzo Carcaterra is an American writer. Hell's Kitchen is the setting for his most famous book, Sleepers, which was adapted into the Sleepers...

  • The Sleeper (Wild Cards)
    The Sleeper (Wild Cards)
    The Sleeper is a fictional character from the Wild Cards series of books.In September 1946, ninth-grader Croyd Crenson, native of an unspecified borough of the New York City metropolitan area, was one of the first victims of the alien virus dubbed "the Wild Card", which generates random mutations...

    , a character in the Wild Cards science fiction series who periodically hibernates, awakening each time in a new body
  • The Sleeper, the main antagonist in Gothic (computer game)
    Gothic (computer game)
    Gothic is a single-player action role-playing video game for Windows developed by the German company Piranha Bytes. It was first released in Germany on March 15, 2001, followed by the English North American release eight months later on November 23, 2001, and the Polish release on March 28,...

  • Sleeper, the Japanese name for the Pokémon Hypno
    Hypno
    Hypno, known in Japan as , is a Pokémon species in Nintendo and Game Freak's Pokémon franchise. Created by Ken Sugimori, Hypno first appeared in the video games Pokémon Red and Blue and subsequent sequels, later appearing in various merchandise, spinoff titles and animated and printed adaptations...


Transportation

  • Sleeper bus
    Sleeper bus
    A sleeper bus is a type of specially adapted coach, often used to transport bands and their technicians and road crew between cities and shows....

    , designed to carry fewer passengers in greater comfort
  • Sleeper (car)
    Sleeper (car)
    A sleeper or Q-car is a car that has high performance and an unassuming exterior. Sleeper cars are termed such because their exterior looks little or no different from a standard or economy-class car. In some cases the car appears worse due to seeming neglect on the owner's part, typically...

    , an automobile that has been modified to improve its performance without changing its outward appearance; the British term for this is Q-car
  • Sleeper truck, a truck with a sleeping compartment
  • Sleeping car
    Sleeping car
    The sleeping car or sleeper is a railway/railroad passenger car that can accommodate all its passengers in beds of one kind or another, primarily for the purpose of making nighttime travel more restful. The first such cars saw sporadic use on American railroads in the 1830s and could be configured...

    , a railway passenger car with beds
  • Railway sleeper, a railroad tie
    Railroad tie
    A railroad tie/railway tie , or railway sleeper is a rectangular item used to support the rails in railroad tracks...


Other uses

  • Le Sommeil
    Le Sommeil
    The Sleepers is an oil on canvas painting by French artist Gustave Courbet in 1866. The painting, depicting lesbianism, was not permitted to be shown publicly until 1988, like a number of his other works such as L'Origine du monde. It was originally commissioned by the Turkish diplomat Khalil...

    (The Sleepers), a painting by Gustave Courbet
  • Sleeper, a sleeping partner in business
  • Sleeper cell, an underground organization of crime and/or terrorism
  • Sleeper, a strong internal beam (structure)
    Beam (structure)
    A beam is a horizontal structural element that is capable of withstanding load primarily by resisting bending. The bending force induced into the material of the beam as a result of the external loads, own weight, span and external reactions to these loads is called a bending moment.- Overview...

     in construction and shipbuilding
  • Sleeper dike (construction), a low inland dike, made obsolete by a newer dike closer to shore
  • Sleeper agent
    Sleeper agent
    A sleeper agent is a spy who is placed in a target country or organization, not to undertake an immediate mission, but rather to act as a potential asset if activated...

    , a secret agent or similar operative left long inactive
  • Blanket sleeper
    Blanket sleeper
    The blanket sleeper is a type of especially warm sleeping garment worn primarily during the winter in the United States and Canada...

    , a one-piece, footed sleeping garment
  • Sleeper cichlid, perch-like member of the genus Nimbochromis
    Nimbochromis
    Nimbochromis is a small genus of haplochromine cichlids endemic to Lake Malawi in East Africa. They are known as sleeper cichlids or kaligono , due to their unique hunting behaviour....

  • Sleeper goby, of the family Eleotridae
    Eleotridae
    Sleeper gobies are members of the Eleotridae fish family, found predominantly in the tropical Indo-Pacific. There are approximately 35 genera and 150 species. While many eleotrids pass through a planktonic stage in the sea and some spend their entire lives in the sea, as adults the majority live in...

  • Sleeper couch
    Couch
    A couch, also called a sofa, is an item of furniture designed to seat more than one person, and providing support for the back and arms. Typically, it will have an armrest on either side. In homes couches are normally found in the family room, living room, den or the lounge...

    , also known as a fold-out couch or hide-a-bed
  • Sleeper earring
    Earring
    Common locations for piercings, other than the earlobe, include the rook, tragus, and across the helix . The simple term "ear piercing" usually refers to an earlobe piercing, whereas piercings in the upper part of the external ear are often referred to as "cartilage piercings"...

    , originally designed to be worn while sleeping to keep the hole in a pierced ear open
  • Sleeper hold, a rear naked choke
    Rear naked choke
    The Rear naked choke is a chokehold in martial arts applied from an opponent's back. Depending on the context, the term may refer to one of two variations of the technique, either arm can be used to apply the choke in both cases...

     hold used in professional wrestling
  • "The sleeper", a yo-yo
    Yo-yo
    The yo-yo in its simplest form is an object consisting of an axle connected to two disks, and a length of twine looped around the axle, similar to a slender spool...

    trick
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