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Rig may refer to:

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Places

  • Rig, an alternate name for Bandar Rig, a city in Bushehr Province, Iran
  • Rig District, a district in Bushehr Province, Iran
  • Rig Rural District, a rural district in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, Iran
  • Rig, Jask, a village in Hormozgan Province, Iran
  • Rig, Lirdaf, a village in Hormozgan Province, Iran
  • Rig, an alternate name for Rig-e Bala, a village in South Khorasan Province, Iran

Slang

  • rig, a slang word for a cigarette
  • rig, a slang term for a syringe used for injecting drugs, notably heroin
  • rig, a slang word for an ambulance by members of fire departments and ambulance companies
  • rig, a slang term for an off-road vehicle intended primarily for recreational use
  • rig, a slang term referring to a tractor unit
  • rig, a slang term referring to a computer

Other

  • rig (mathematics), a structure similar to rings without the requirement that elements should have additive inverses
  • drilling rig, a structure housing equipment used to drill or extract oil from underground
  • ríg or rí, Irish language word for "king"
  • rig or run rig, a traditional system of land occupation in Scotland
  • rig, a horse-drawn carriage together with the horses and harness
  • rig, a parachute system in skydiving
  • rig, a partially castrated male livestock animal, especially in cattle or horses
  • rig, a transmitter, receiver, or transceiver in amateur radio
  • rig, in abstract algebra, a humorous name for a semiring, being a ring without negative elements (n)
  • rig, something that a dog pulls when mushing
  • rig, the configuration of sails and other rigging on a sailing vessel
  • rig, to engage in cheating during a game, election, etc.
  • Ríg (Norse god) or Heimdall, the father of mankind in Norse mythology
  • rig (stage lighting)
  • rigging or skeletal animation, grouping the elements of parts such as limbs in an animated 3D computer model

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