Gauntlet (not to be confused with gantlet) may mean: · Gauntlet , protective gloves used as a form of armour · Gauntlet , a video game originally produced in 1985 by Atari Games · Gauntlet founded by Jim Ward that pioneered the field of body piercing · Gauntlet , a Marvel comics superhero · Gauntlet , a Marvel comics supervillain · Gauntlet , a weekly newspaper published by students at the University of Calgary · Gauntlet , the white markings on one or more of the legs of an animal such as a cat or rabbit, making them look like they have a long white glove on. Other examples of these leg markings are the sock and the glove; all three are defined by their different lengths · SA-15 Gauntlet, Soviet surface-to-air missile · Running the gauntlet, a corporal punishment in which people armed with sticks or other weapons arrange themselves in two lines facing each other and beat the subject, who is forc