# Rub

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[**Rubbing**](/source/Rubbing_(friction)) is moving an object in contact with another object.

**Rub**, **RUB**, **rubs** or **rubbing** may also refer to:

## Arts and entertainment

- [*Rub* (album)](/source/Rub_(album)), by Peaches, 2015
- [Rubbing (art)](/source/Rubbing_(art)), a method of recording and reproducing the texture of a surface
- [The Rub](/source/The_Rub), an English rock band
- "Rubbin'", a song by Choclair from the 1999 album *[Ice Cold](/source/Ice_Cold)*

## Organisations

- [Ruhr University Bochum](/source/Ruhr_University_Bochum), in Germany
- [Royal University of Bhutan](/source/Royal_University_of_Bhutan)

## People

- [Christian Rub](/source/Christian_Rub) (1886–1956), Austrian-born American character actor
- [Kurt Rub](/source/Kurt_Rub) (born 1946), Swiss racing cyclist
- [Timothy Rub](/source/Timothy_Rub) (born 1952), American museum director and art historian

## Other uses

- [Abrasion (mechanical)](/source/Abrasion_(mechanical)), or rubbing away
- [Spice rub](/source/Spice_rub), in cooking
- [Date honey](/source/Date_honey), or rub
- [Russian ruble](/source/Russian_ruble), ISO 4217 currency code RUB
- [Kuliak languages](/source/Kuliak_languages), or Rub languages, in Uganda
- [Gungu language](/source/Gungu_language), ISO 639 language code rub
- Rub, [a professional wrestling term](/source/Glossary_of_professional_wrestling_terms)
- Ratio Utility Billing Systems (RUBS), a [utility billing](/source/Utility_submeter) allocation method
- [New South Wales RUB type carriage stock](/source/New_South_Wales_RUB_type_carriage_stock), a type of train carriage

## See also

- [Alcohol rub (disambiguation)](/source/Alcohol_rub_(disambiguation))
- [Rub out (disambiguation)](/source/Rub_out_(disambiguation))
- [Rub-a-dub-dub (disambiguation)](/source/Rub-a-dub-dub_(disambiguation))
- "There's the rub", a phrase in "[To be, or not to be](/source/To_be,_or_not_to_be)" in Shakespeare's *Hamlet*
- [Liniment](/source/Liniment), or heat rub, a medicated topical preparation
- [Massage](/source/Massage), the rubbing or kneading of the body's soft tissues
- [NEDD8](/source/NEDD8), a protein in *Saccharomyces cerevisiae* known as Rub1
- [Rubredoxin A](/source/Rubredoxin_A) (RubA), a protein in oxygenic photoautotrophs

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