A skeleton crew is the minimum number of personnel needed to operate and maintain an item.

Skeleton crew may also refer to:

Music[edit]

• Skeleton Crew (band), an American experimental rock and jazz group
• Skeleton Crew, an American record label co-founded by Frank Iero
• Skeleton Crew, a 2015 album by Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear

Other media[edit]

• Skeleton Crew (short story collection), a 1985 collection of short fiction by Stephen King
• Skeleton Crew (comics), a group of Marvel Comics supervillains
• Skeleton Crew (film), a Finnish horror film
• Skeleton Crew (play), a 2016 play by Dominique Morisseau
• The Skeleton Crew (book), a 2014 true-crime book
• Bones: Skeleton Crew, a web series
• "Skeleton Crew", an episode of American TV series JAG
• Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, an upcoming Star Wars TV series, set to release in 2024
• The Skeleton Crew, the house band on the Netflix revival of Mystery Science Theater 3000
• Skeleton Krew was a video game developed by Core Design in 1995