Rack

Rack or racks may refer to:

Storage

• Amp rack, short for amplifier rack, a piece of furniture in which amplifiers are mounted
• Bicycle rack, a frame for storing bicycles when not in use
• Bustle rack, a type of storage bin mounted on armored fighting vehicles
• Drying rack, for hanging clothing to dry
• Pallet racking, structural racks (usually steel) for storing palletised loads
• Rack (billiards)
• Roof rack, a system used to carry items on top of a car
• Standardized equipment racks
  • 19-inch rack and 23-inch rack, commonly used for computer, communications, and AV equipment
  • Rack unit, equipment sizing measure
  • International Standard Payload Rack, used in spaceflight
• Toast rack, a serving piece

Media

• The Rack (album), debut album by Asphyx
• Racks, studio album by Buckethead
• The Rack (film), a 1956 drama starring Paul Newman
• "Racks" (song), song by rapper Y. C.

People

• Rack (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), fictitious character
• Reinhard Rack (born 1945), Austrian politician
• Tom Rack, American actor

Transportation

• Rack and pinion, a gear arrangement commonly used in vehicle steering
• Rack lift, an elevator which runs on vertical rails
• Rack railway, a train propelled using a toothed rail
• Rack, in horseriding, a quick, four-beat ambling gait
• Racks railway station, a former railway station in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland

Other uses

• Climbing rack, the set of equipment carried up a climb. Term mostly used in context of traditional climbing.
• Rack (web server interface), a Web server interface for Ruby
• RACK protein, an acronym for Receptor for Activated C Kinase
• Racking, the transfer of a liquid (such as wine) from one container to another
• Racking focus, a photography technique
• Rack of lamb, a culinary dish
• Racks and quandles, concepts in abstract algebra
• Rack (torture)
• Risk-aware consensual kink, a BDSM sexual practice