Rack Explained
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:
- 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
- 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
- Rack slide, a type of linear bearing used to mount pull-out equipment in racks
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
- 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
- On the racks (2001), an album by Belgian band Lords of Acid
- 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 in the Middle" (2019), a song by American rapper Nipsey Hussle
- "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 and characters
- Rack or Marrack, a fictional character in the American TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Rack-Lo, American rapper
- Edmund Rack (c.1735–1787), English writer
- Reinhard Rack (born 1945), Austrian politician
- Ricky Racks, pseudonym of American songwriter Ricky Harrell, Jr (1987–)
- Simon Rack, fictional galactic secret agent created by American writer L. James in 1974
- Tom Rack, Canadian actor and writer (1983–)
Companies, organizations and products
- Beyond the Rack, a Canadian online shopping company
- Mag Rack, also Lifeskool, an American video on demand television distributor
- Muck Rack, a public database for journalists
- 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
- Rackmax or Rack-max, a plant growth product developed by Ed Haas (1950–2024) through his RackMax company, Alabama
- SafeRack, an American maker of safety products for transportation industries
- 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
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
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 jobber or rack merchandiser, a company that displays merchandise in stores
- Rack of ribs, a cut of meat, e.g.
- Rack phase difference, a parameter of a jackup rig
- Rack rate, the published full list price of a hotel room
- Rack-rent, a type of property rent
- Rack striking, a way of playing a striking clock
- Rack tom, a variant of tom drum
- Racks and quandles, concepts in abstract algebra
- Short Rack Rotation, a variant of rotation pool
- Torture rack or Argentine backbreaker rack, a professional wrestling move
- Trash rack or debris screen, to stop floating debris from entering water wheels, pumps, etc
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