Science and technology

• Starter motors, used to start internal-combustion engines
• Motor starters, used to start large electric motors
• Fluorescent lamp starters, used to initiate operation of fluorescent lights

Food and meals

• Bread starter
  Bread starter
  A pre-ferment is a fermentation starter used in bread making, and is referred to as an indirect method. It may also be called mother dough....
  
   or "sponge", a fermented mixture used in baking sourdough
• Fermentation starter
  Fermentation starter
  Fermentation starters are preparations to assist the beginning of the fermentation process in preparation of various foods and fermented drinks. A starter culture is a microbiological culture which actually performs fermentation...
  
  , preparations to assist the beginning of fermentation
• Entrée
  Entrée
  An entrée is a dish served before the main course, or between two principal courses of a meal.The disappearance in the early 20th century of a large communal main course such as a roast as a standard part of the meal in the English-speaking world has led to the term being used to describe the main...
  
   and Hors d'œuvre, a course before the main course of a meal

Sports

• A player in the starting lineup
  Starting lineup
  A starting lineup in sports is an official list of the set of players who will actively participate in the event when the game begins. The players in the starting lineup are commonly referred to as starters, whereas the others are substitutes or bench players.The starters are commonly the best...
  
  
• A starting pitcher
  Starting pitcher
  In baseball or softball, a starting pitcher is the pitcher who delivers the first pitch to the first batter of a game. A pitcher who enters the game after the first pitch of the game is a relief pitcher....
  
   in baseball
• In golf
  Golf
  Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
  
  , the person who determines the order of play from the first tee
• In many forms of racing, including auto racing
  Auto racing
  Auto racing is a motorsport involving the racing of cars for competition. It is one of the world's most watched televised sports.-The beginning of racing:...
  
   and motocross
  Motocross
  Motocross is a form of motorcycle sport or all-terrain vehicle racing held on enclosed off road circuits. It evolved from trials, and was called scrambles, and later motocross, combining the French moto with cross-country...
  
  , the primary flagman, positioned at the start/finish line

Games and hobbies

• Starter pack
  Starter pack
  A starter pack is a sealed package of cards or figurines, designed to serve as the beginning of a collection, in collectible card games and collectible miniature wargames....
  
  , a trading card games deck containing enough cards to play a full game self-sufficiently

Other uses

• Starter Clothing Line
  Starter Clothing Line
  -Rise and expansion:Starter was founded in 1971 in New Haven, Connecticut by David Beckerman, a former basketball player for Southern Connecticut State University, to manufacture team uniforms for high school athletic programs....
  
  , a clothing brand that was popular in the 1990s
• Starter jacket
  Starter jacket
  Starter jackets are jackets made by the Starter Clothing Line that were a fad in the early 1990s. Starter jackets were typically designed to show allegiance to a particular professional or college sports team, and prominently featured both the team's logo and colors...
  
  , jackets made by the Starter Clothing Line