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Hammer can refer to any of the following:
- Hammer is a type of tool.
- Hammer throw, the sport.
- A hammer is a small padded stick or cane used in pairs to play the hammered dulcimer. Dulcimer hammers are made of a variety of materials, most frequently wood with a hammer head covered with a strip of leather or felt.
- Hammers are felt-padded objects within a piano and similar instruments, which, when triggered by depressing a key, strike the instrument's strings.
- Hammer is an informal term for the malleus bone of the ear.
- Hammer is the short form name for the Valve Hammer Editor (VHE), the official map editing program for the Half-Life series of computer games.
- Hammer is also the shortened name used by 90s pop-rap artist M.C. Hammer later in his career.
- Hammer is a common shorthand reference to Hammer Films, a British film company famous for its line of horror films.
- The Hammer is a nickname for baseball legend, Hank Aaron.
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