The elk (or wapiti, Cervus canadensis) is a large antlered mammal within the deer family.

Elk may also refer to:

Wildlife

  • Eurasian elk or moose (Alces alces), the largest extant species in the deer family
  • Irish elk (Megaloceros giganteus, extinct), one of the largest deer that ever lived
  • Whooper swan or elk, a large Northern Hemisphere swan

Arts and entertainment

  • Elk (.hack), a character in the .hack alternative history franchise
  • Elk (album), 2005, by Inga Liljeström
  • Elk (Milwaukee sculpture), a 1901 public artwork
  • E L K, èlk or ELK, Australian hip hop artist on the Playback 808 label
  • Thompson Elk Fountain, an outdoor fountain in Portland, Oregon, by Roland Hinton Perry

Places

Poland

  • Ełk, a town in northeastern Poland
  • Ełk County
  • Gmina Ełk
  • Diocese of Ełk
  • Ełk (hamlet)
  • , river in Poland
  • Ełk Lake
  • Ełk Narrow Gauge Railway

United States

  • Elk, Fresno County, California
  • Elk, Mendocino County, California
  • Elk, Kansas
  • Elk, Ohio
  • Elk City, Oklahoma
  • Elk, Washington
  • Elk, West Virginia
  • Elk, Wisconsin

Technology

  • Extension Language Kit, an implementation of the Scheme programming language
  • ELK stack, a technology stack composed of Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana, now called Elastic Stack
  • Acorn Electron, nicknamed "Elk", an 8-bit microcomputer produced in the 1980s by British company Acorn Computers

Transportation

  • Elk, a locomotive of the South Devon Railway Eagle class
  • Elk (steam tug), formerly operated on Puget Sound
  • Elk (sternwheeler 1857), a steamboat

Other uses

  • Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
  • Elk (surname)
  • Elk Mountains (Colorado)
  • Elk v. Wilkins, a United States Supreme Court case

See also

  • Elk County (disambiguation)
  • Elk Creek (disambiguation)
  • Elk Lake (disambiguation)
  • Elk Range (disambiguation)
  • Elk River (disambiguation)
  • Elk Township (disambiguation)
  • Elko (disambiguation)
  • Elks (disambiguation)