Rack or racks may refer to:

Storage, support and transportation

  • Amp rack, a piece of furniture in which amplifiers are mounted
  • Autorack or auto carrier, for transporting vehicles in freight trains
  • Baker's rack, for bread and other baked goods
  • Bicycle rack:
  • Bicycle parking rack
  • Bicycle stand, for holding bicycles in service, storage, or transport
  • The luggage carrier of a bicycle
  • Bustle rack, a type of storage bin mounted on armored fighting vehicles
  • Clothes rack, or clothes horse
  • Drum rack, part of a drum kit
  • Drying rack, for clothing
  • Ejector rack or hardpoint for attaching external loads to an aircraft
  • Firearm rack
  • Flat rack container, a type of railroad freight car
  • Hatstand, also known as a coat rack, hall rack, or hat rack
  • Hay rack, for feeding animals
  • Laboratory drying rack, a for hanging and draining glassware
  • Music rack or music stand, to hold sheet music for performance
  • Newspaper rack, a newspaper vending machine
  • Pallet racking, for storing palletised loads
  • Pot rack for kitchen storage
  • Roof rack, for a car top
  • Shoe rack
  • Spinner rack, a rotating frame for store merchandise
  • Pipe rack, for supporting pipe or cable runs
  • 19-inch rack or 23-inch rack, for computer and other electronic equipment
  • Truck bed rack, a metal frame used to increase a truck bed's capacity

Mechanics

  • Power rack, a piece of weight training equipment
  • The straight component of a rack and pinion pair
  • Rack lift, an elevator which runs on vertical rails
  • Rack railway, a train propelled using a toothed rail
  • Rack slide, a type of linear bearing used to mount pull-out equipment in racks

Media

  • The Rack (album) (1991), by Dutch death metal band Asphyx
  • The Rack (1915 film), an American silent drama
  • The Rack (1956 film), a courtroom drama starring Paul Newman
  • Rack (album) (2024) by American rock band Jesus Lizard
  • "Racks" (song) (2011), by American rapper Y. C.

People and characters

  • Rack or Marrack, a fictional character in the American TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  • Edmund Rack (c.1735–1787), English writer
  • Reinhard Rack (born 1945), Austrian politician
  • Ricky Racks, pseudonym of American songwriter Ricky Harrell, Jr (born 1987)
  • Simon Rack, fictional galactic secret agent created by American writer L. James in 1974
  • Tom Rack, Canadian actor and writer (born 1983)

Software

  • Rack (web server interface), a Ruby API definition
  • VCV Rack, a free software modular synthesizer

Places and artifacts

  • Rack Marsh, a nature reserve in Bagnor, England
  • Rack Hill, a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire, England
  • Racks railway station, a former station in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland

Other uses

  • Rackable Systems (NASDAQ symbol: RACK), former American computer manufacturer
  • Rack or singlefoot, (racking), a horse gait
  • Rack (climbing), the set of equipment carried up a climb
  • Rack, a slang term for money, specifically £1,000
  • Rack (billiards) or triangle, a frame for placing billiard balls in their starting positions
  • Rack (torture)
  • Rack of ribs, a cut of meat
  • Rack of lamb, a cut of meat
  • Rack-rent, a type of property rent
  • Rack, a slang term for a women's breasts
  • Racks and quandles, concepts in abstract algebra
  • Argentine backbreaker rack, a professional wrestling move
  • Rappel rack, a type of caving descender

See also

  • RACK (disambiguation)
  • Wrack (disambiguation)
  • Racking (disambiguation)
  • Rack slide, a type of linear bearing used to mount pull-out equipment in racks
  • Tzompantli, a display rack for human skulls in Mesoamerican cultures
  • Rack-O, a Milton-Bradley card matching game
  • Nordstrom Rack, an American off-price department store
  • <code>mod_rack</code>, informal name of Ruby web server Phusion Passenger
  • CSAR Rack 4-6-4RT a South African locomotive
  • Sinclair Loading Rack, a former historic Sinclair Oil structure in Oklahoma
  • Rack rate, the published full list price of a hotel room
  • Rack striking, a way of playing a striking clock
  • Rack and snail, a mechanism used in some striking clocks
  • Rack tom, a variant of tom drum
  • List of rack railways