Rub Explained

Rubbing is moving an object in contact with another object.

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

Arts and entertainment

• Rub (album), by Peaches, 2015
• Rubbing (art), a method of recording and reproducing the texture of a surface
• The Rub, an English rock band
• "Rubbin'", a song by Choclair from the 1999 album Ice Cold

Organisations

• Ruhr University Bochum, in Germany
• Royal University of Bhutan

People

• Christian Rub (1886–1956), Austrian-born American character actor
• Kurt Rub (born 1946), Swiss racing cyclist
• Timothy Rub (born 1952), American museum director and art historian

Other uses

• Abrasion (mechanical), or rubbing away
• Spice rub, in cooking
• Date honey, or rub
• Russian ruble, ISO 4217 currency code RUB
• Kuliak languages, or Rub languages, in Uganda
• Gungu language, ISO 639 language code rub
• Rub, a professional wrestling term
• Ratio Utility Billing Systems (RUBS), a utility billing allocation method
• New South Wales RUB type carriage stock, a type of train carriage

See also

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