Rig

Rig or RIG may refer to:

Objects and structures

• Rig (fishing), an arrangement of items used for fishing
• Drilling rig, a structure housing equipment used to drill or extract oil from underground
• Rig (stage lighting)
• rig, a horse-drawn carriage together with the horses and harness
• rig, something that a dog pulls when mushing
• Rig (sailing), the configuration of sails and masts on a sailing vessel
• rig, a parachute system in skydiving
• rig, a transmitter, receiver, or transceiver in amateur radio
• Oil rig
• rig, a tractor unit
• rig, a desktop computer

Acronym

• RIG, the ticker symbol for Transocean, a Swiss offshore drilling company
• Radio Independents Group, a UK trade organisation
• Reykjavik International Games, a sport event taking place in Iceland

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, Gilan, a village in Gilan Province, Iran
• Rig, Jask, a village in Hormozgan Province, Iran
• Rig, Lirdaf, a village in Hormozgan Province, Iran
• Rig castle, in Kashmar County, Iran
• Rig, an alternate name for Rig-e Bala, a village in South Khorasan Province, Iran
• Rig, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in the US
• Pearland Stadium, or The Rig, a stadium in Texas, United States
• Rio Grande Airport, IATA code: RIG, an airport in Brazil

Other uses

• rig (mathematics) or semiring, a structure similar to rings without the requirement that elements should have additive inverses
• ríg or rí, Irish language word for "king"
• rig or run rig, a traditional system of land occupation in Scotland
• Ridgling, or rig, a male animal with one or both testicles undescended
• rig, to engage in cheating during a game, election, etc.
• Ríg (Norse god) or Heimdall, the father of mankind in Norse mythology
• rigging or skeletal animation, grouping the elements of parts such as limbs in an animated 3D computer model
• Rig (Dead or Alive), a fictional character from Dead or Alive video game series
• Spotted estuary smooth-hound (Mustelus lenticulatus), a fish
• The Rig (TV series), an upcoming series for Amazon Prime Video
• Gaming rig, a personal computer designed for video games
• RIGS: Mechanized Combat League, a video game

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Rig
• All pages with titles containing rig
• Big Rig (disambiguation)
• Rigg (disambiguation)
• Rigger (disambiguation)
• Rigging (disambiguation)
• Riggs, a surname
• Rigveda, in Hinduism, a sacred collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns dedicated to the gods
• Rigged (book), a 2007 book by author Ben Mezrich