Gig Explained

Gig or GIG may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• Concert, known informally as a gig
• The Gig, a 1985 film written and directed by Frank D. Gilroy
• Gig (Circle Jerks album) (1992)
• GIG (Hot Wheels AcceleRacers), a character
• Gig (Northern Pikes album) (1993)
• "GUYS Is Green" ("G.I.G.!"), in the Japanese television series Ultraman Mebius
• KGIG-LP ("104.9 The Gig"), an FM radio station licensed to Modesto, California, US

Transportation

• Gig (boat), a type of boat
• Gig (carriage), a two-wheeled sprung cart to be pulled by a horse
• Cornish pilot gig, a six-oared rowing boat
• Rio de Janeiro–Galeão International Airport (IATA airport code), the main airport serving Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Giggleswick railway station (National Rail station code), Yorkshire, England
• Gig Car Share, a carsharing service in parts of the San Francisco Bay Area

Science and technology

• Gigabyte (colloquial gig), a computer unit of information
• Global Information Grid, a military global information network operated by the United States Department of Defense
• Generalized inverse Gaussian distribution, a distribution in probability theory

People

• Gig Gangel (born 1958), Playboy Playmate of the Month for January 1980
• Gig Morton (born 1996), Canadian actor
• Gig Ryan (born 1956), Australian poet born Elizabeth Anne Martina Ryan
• Gig Young (1913–1978), American actor born Byron Elsworth Barr

Other uses

• Gig-mill, a machine for the gigging of textiles that produce a fibrous and soft surface.
• Georgian Industrial Group, a holding company in Georgia
• Gig, temporary work for a specified time
• Gig, a multi-pronged spear used in gigging or hunting fish or small game
• Gig, the blade a professional wrestler uses to cut himself; See List of professional wrestling terms
• GIG Cymru, the Welsh-language name for NHS Wales

See also

• Gig economy, the economy of those in temporary work
• Gig worker, workers who perform temporary work
• Gigg (disambiguation)
• Giggs (disambiguation)