# Rack

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**Rack** or **racks** may refer to:

## Storage, support and transportation

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

## Mechanics

- [Power rack](/source/Power_rack), a piece of weight training equipment
- The straight component of a [rack and pinion](/source/Rack_and_pinion) pair
- [Rack lift](/source/Rack_lift), an elevator which runs on vertical rails
- [Rack railway](/source/Rack_railway), a train propelled using a toothed rail
- Rack slide, a type of [linear bearing](/source/Linear-motion_bearing#Rack_slides) used to mount pull-out equipment in racks

## Media

- [*The Rack* (album)](/source/The_Rack_(album)) (1991), by Dutch death metal band Asphyx
- [*The Rack* (1915 film)](/source/The_Rack_(1915_film)), an American silent drama
- [*The Rack* (1956 film)](/source/The_Rack_(1956_film)), a courtroom drama starring Paul Newman
- [*Rack* (album)](/source/Rack_(album)) (2024) by American rock band Jesus Lizard
- ["Racks" (song)](/source/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](/source/Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)*
- [Edmund Rack](/source/Edmund_Rack) (c.1735–1787), English writer
- [Reinhard Rack](/source/Reinhard_Rack) (born 1945), Austrian politician
- [Ricky Racks](/source/Ricky_Racks), pseudonym of American songwriter Ricky Harrell, Jr (born 1987)
- [Simon Rack](/source/Simon_Rack), fictional galactic secret agent created by American writer L. James in 1974
- [Tom Rack](/source/Tom_Rack), Canadian actor and writer (born 1983)

## Software

- [Rack (web server interface)](/source/Rack_(web_server_interface)), a Ruby API definition
- [VCV Rack](/source/VCV_Rack), a free software modular synthesizer

## Places and artifacts

- [Rack Marsh](/source/Rack_Marsh), a nature reserve in Bagnor, England
- [Rack Hill](/source/Rack_Hill), a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire, England
- [Racks railway station](/source/Racks_railway_station), a former station in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland

## Other uses

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

## See also

- [RACK (disambiguation)](/source/RACK_(disambiguation))
- [Wrack (disambiguation)](/source/Wrack_(disambiguation))
- [Racking (disambiguation)](/source/Racking_(disambiguation))
- Rack slide, a type of linear bearing used to mount pull-out equipment in racks
- *[Tzompantli](/source/Tzompantli)*, a display rack for human skulls in Mesoamerican cultures
- [Rack-O](/source/Rack-O), a Milton-Bradley card matching game
- [Nordstrom Rack](/source/Nordstrom_Rack), an American off-price department store
- mod_rack, informal name of Ruby web server [Phusion Passenger](/source/Phusion_Passenger)
- [CSAR Rack 4-6-4RT](/source/CSAR_Rack_4-6-4RT) a South African locomotive
- [Sinclair Loading Rack](/source/Sinclair_Loading_Rack), a former historic Sinclair Oil structure in Oklahoma
- [Rack rate](/source/Rack_rate), the published full list price of a hotel room
- [Rack striking](/source/Rack_striking), a way of playing a striking clock
- [Rack and snail](/source/Rack_and_snail), a mechanism used in some striking clocks
- Rack tom, a variant of [tom drum](/source/Tom_drum)
- [List of rack railways](/source/List_of_rack_railways)

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