Handicap

Handicapped or handicap may refer to:

In sports and games

• Handicapping, various methods of levelling the outcome in a competitive sport or game:
• Handicap race (disambiguation)
• Handicap (chess)
• Handicap (golf)
• Handicap (go)
• Handicap (sailing)
• Handicap (shogi)
• Handicapping, various methods of outcome prediction or levelling outcome predictions:
• Asian handicap, bookmakers' technique to level odds
• Political handicapping, the news process of trying to predict election outcomes, especially rather than focusing on the political issues
• "The Handicapped", short story by Larry Niven originally published in 1967 as "Handicap"

Human condition

• Disability, an impairment that substantially affects a person's life activities, and may be present at birth or arise later in life
• Self-handicapping, a psychological method for preserving self-esteem

Biology

• Handicap principle, an evolutionary theory (also known as handicap theory)