# Duck (disambiguation)

Duck is a name applied to several bird species of the family Anatidae.
Duck, The Duck or ducks may also refer to:

## Places

* Duck, North Carolina, United States, a small town
* Duck, West Virginia, United States, an unincorporated community
* Monte Creek, British Columbia, Canada, a rural locality originally named "Ducks"
* Duck Creek (disambiguation)
* Duck Island (disambiguation)
* Duck Lake (disambiguation)
* Duck River (disambiguation)

## People

* Duck (nickname)
* Duck (surname)
* Duck, a pseudonym of Don Manley (born 1945), a British compiler of crosswords

## Arts and entertainment
### Fictional characters

* Duck (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
* Duck the Great Western Engine a character from The Railway Series and the children's television series Thomas & Friends
* Duck, in the anime Princess Tutu
* Duck, in the British horror web series Don't Hug Me I'm Scared
* Duck, a main character in the British television show Sarah & Duck
* Duck, in the animated television series WordWorld
* Wayne "Duck" Newton, in the podcast The Adventure Zone
* Duck Phillips, in the AMC television series Mad Men
* Ducks, a race of sentient creatures in the Glorantha setting for the fantasy role-playing games RuneQuest and Suikoden
* Donald Duck, an animated character from Walt Disney Animation Studios
* Daffy Duck and Mellisa Duck (Tina Russo in The Looney Tunes Show), two characters from Looney Tunes

### Music

* The Ducks, a 1977 Santa Cruz, California, band with Neil Young and some former members of Moby Grape
* "The Duck" (song), a 1966 hit single by Jackie Lee
* Duck Records, a record label
* Duck Studios, a production studio based in Los Angeles, California
* Duck (album), a 2019 album by Kaiser Chiefs

### Film and television

* Duck (film), a 2005 film by Nic Batterau
* Duck! The Carbine High Massacre, a 1999 film about a fictional school shooting
* Duck, a BBC Two television ident first aired in 1997; see BBC Two 1991–2001 idents
* "Duck! / Aren't You Chupacabra To See Me?", an episode of The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy
* "Ducks", an episode of the television series Teletubbies

### Other media

* Duck (video game), a 1987 puzzle platform game for NES
* Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, a 2022 graphic novel by Kate Beaton

## Brands and enterprises

* Duck Brand, a duct tape brand now used on a variety of products
* Duck Donuts, a doughnut shop
* On2 Technologies, formerly The Duck Corporation, which designed video codec technology
* Toilet Duck, a brand of toilet cleaner, known simply as Duck in the British Isles

## Sports and games

* Duck (bridge), a tactic in the card game of contract bridge
* Duck (cricket), a cricketing term denoting a batsman being dismissed with a score of zero
* Anaheim Ducks, a hockey team
* Beijing Ducks, a Chinese basketball team
* Lohja Ducks, a Finnish ice hockey team
* Long Island Ducks, a minor league baseball team
* Oregon Ducks, the sports teams of the University of Oregon

## Transportation

* American Canyon Transit, also known as "The Duck"
* Citroën 2CV, a car model nicknamed "The Duck"
* Ducati, a motorcycle company, sometimes shortened to "Duc" or "Duck"
* Duck (ship), one of several vessels by that name
* DUKW, commonly pronounced "duck", an amphibious six-wheel drive vehicle used by the US military during World War II
* Goodyear Duck, a 1940s amphibian aircraft
* Grumman JF Duck, a 1930s biplane amphibious aircraft built for the US Navy
* Grumman J2F Duck, amphibious aircraft derived from the JF Duck

## Other uses

* Duck, a lead weight used by draftsmen to hold splines in place
* Duck, a hypocorism or affectionate phrase, often used in parts of the Midlands and South Yorkshire in England, originally derived from the title Duke
* Duck, a very short cave sump
* Duck, in architecture, any building in the shape of something associated with it; named for the Big Duck
* Cotton duck, a fine strong cloth made from untwilled linen, later cotton
* Duck as food, the meat of the bird
* Duck Samford Stadium, a football stadium in Auburn, Alabama, nicknamed "The Duck"
* "Duck", the victim of Ducking (slang), a technique for manipulating prison staff
* Ducks (hiking) or cairn, a pile of three or more stones used to mark an off-trail hiking route