Rack

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 (born 1987), pseudonym of American songwriter Ricky Harrell, Jr
• Simon Rack, fictional galactic secret agent created by American writer L. James in 1974
• Tom Rack (born 1983), Canadian actor and writer
• Ursula Rack, polar historian

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)
• All pages with titles beginning with Rack
• All pages with titles containing Rack
• 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
• mod_rack, 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