Rack

Rack or racks may refer to:

Storage, support and transportation

• Amp rack, short for amplifier rack, a piece of furniture in which amplifiers are mounted
• Autorack or auto carrier, to transport cars 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 bicyle
• Bustle rack, a type of storage bin mounted on armored fighting vehicles
• Clothes rack, same as clothes horse
• Coat rack, hall rack, or hat rack, same as hatstand
• Drum rack, item of drum hardware
• Drying rack, for hanging clothing to dry
• Ejector rack or hardpoint, to attach external loads to an aircraft
• Firearm rack, for storing firearms
• Flat rack container, a railroad freight car with two end walls but no side walls
• Hay rack to hold hay for feeding animals.
• Laboratory drying rack, a pegboard for hanging and draining glassware in a laboratory
• Music rack or music stand, to hold sheet music for performance
• Newspaper rack, a newspaper vending machine
• Pallet racking, structural racks for storing palletised loads
• Pot rack to organize pots in a kitchen
• Roof rack, a system used to carry items on top of a car
• Shoe rack, often just inside the entrance of a home
• Spinner rack, rotating frame to display merchandise in stores
• Pipe rack, to support pipes, cables, cable trays, etc
• Skull rack or Tzompantli, a display of human skulls in Mesoamerican cultures
• Standard rack systems to support computer, communications, and AV equipment
  • 19-inch rack
    • Open Rack, an alternative standard
  • 23-inch rack, and
  • Rack unit, a unit of measure for the height of equipment placed in such racks
  • International Standard Payload Rack for the International Space Station, including
    • European Drawer Rack
    • Combustion Integrated Rack
    • Fluids Integrated Rack
• Test tube rack used in chemical laboratories
• Toast rack, for holding slices of toasted bread
• Truck bed rack, metal frame attached to a truck bed to increase its capacity
• Wash rack, a partly enclosed platform for washing vehicles and equipment
• Wine rack for wine bottles

Mechanics

• Power rack, a piece of weight training equipment
• The straight component of a rack and pinion pair
• Rack and snail, a mechanism used in some striking clocks
• Rack lift, an elevator which runs on vertical rails
• Rack railway, a train propelled using a toothed rail

Media

• Bomb Rack (1945-1946), a free weekly published by the 20th US Air Force in Guam
• Bottle Rack (1914), a proto-Dada sculpture by Marcel Duchamp
• Come Rack! Come Rope! (1912), historical novel by English priest and writer R. H. Benson
• Curly on the Rack (1958) play by Australian writer Ru Pullan
• Killer Rack (2015), an American musical horror comedy film
• Muck Rack, a public database for journalists
• The Rack (album) (1991), by Dutch death metal band Asphyx
• The Rack (1915 film), an American silent drama film
• The Rack (1956 film), a courtroom drama starring Paul Newman
• Off the Rack (1985), an American sitcom TV series
• Rack (album) (2024) by American rock band Jesus Lizard
• "Rack City" (2012), a song by American rapper Tyga
• Rack 'Em (1988), a pool/snooker video game by Accolade
• Rack 'Em Up (1987), a billiards/pool arcade game by Konami
• Rack-O, a Milton-Bradley card matching game
• Rack 'n Roll, a game for a 2007 robotics competition

• "Racks" (song) (2011), by American rapper Y. C.
• "Racks on Racks" (2019), a song by American rapper Lil Pump
• "That's a Rack" (2019), a song by American rapper Lil Uzi Vert
• The Rack Pack (2016), a 2016 British comedy-drama TV film about snooker
• War in a Rack (2009), music album by jazz saxophonist and rapper Soweto Kinch
• "(I'm Gonna) Put You Back on the Rack" (1981), a country song by R. Goodrum and B. Maher
• The Woman on the Rack (1928), silent German drama film

People

• Rack (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), fictitious character
• Edmund Rack (c.1735–1787), English writer
• Reinhard Rack (born 1945), Austrian politician
• Tom Rack, American actor

Companies, organizations and products

• Beyond the Rack, a Canadian online shopping company
• Mag Rack, also Lifeskool, an American video on demand television distributor
• Nordstrom Rack an American off-price department store
• Rack Room Shoes, an American footwear retailer
• Rackable Systems, Inc., that acquired bankrupt Silicon Graphics (SGI) and became Silicon Graphics International
• Speed Rack, an American speed bartending competition for women
• Tie Rack Ltd, a British retailer of neckties and scarves
• Tire Rack, an American distributor of tire, wheels and other car accessories

Software

• Rack (web server interface), a Web server interface for Ruby
• VCV Rack, a free software modular synthesizer
• mod_rack, informal name of Ruby web server Phusion Passenger

Places and artifacts

• CSAR Rack 4-6-4RT a South African locomotive
• 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 railway station in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland
• Sinclair Loading Rack, a former historic Sinclair Oil structure built in 1928 in Oklahoma
• Toast Rack (building), formerly Hollings Building, in Manchester, England

As a verb

• Racking, the transfer of a liquid (such as wine) from one container to another
• A step in the tap, rack, bang action sequence when using a firearm
• Racking focus, a photography technique
• Hot racking, also hot bunking or hot bedding, the sharing of bunks in the military

Other uses

• Down the rack, running the rack, or drop set, a strategy in bodybuilding
• Rack or singlefoot, a type of horse gait, such as of a Racking Horse
• Rack, a climbing term for the set of equipment carried up a climb
• Rack (billiards) or triangle, a frame for placing billiard balls in their starting positions
• Rack (torture), an ancient instrument of torture
• Rack card, advertising document displayed at convenience stores, hotels, etc.
• Rack rate, the published full list price#Rack rate of a hotel room
• Rack striking, a way of playing a striking clock
• Rack jobber or rack merchandiser, a company that displays merchandise in stores
• Rack of ribs, a cut of meat, e.g.
  • Rack of lamb
• Rack phase difference, a parameter of a jackup rig
• Rack-rent, a type of property rent
• Torture rack or Argentine backbreaker rack, a professional wrestling move
• Racks and quandles, concepts in abstract algebra
• Trash rack or debris screen, to stop floating debris from entering water wheels, pumps, etc

See also

• RACK (disambiguation)
• List of rack railways
• Pallet rack mover
• Wrack (disambiguation)