# Rack

Rack or racks may refer to:

## Storage, support and transportation

* Amp rack, a piece of furniture in which amplifiers are mounted
* Autorack or auto carrier, for transporting vehicles in freight trains
* Baker's rack, for bread and other baked goods
* Bicycle rack:
** Bicycle parking rack
** Bicycle stand, for holding bicycles in service, storage, or transport
** The luggage carrier of a bicycle
* Bustle rack, a type of storage bin mounted on armored fighting vehicles
* Clothes rack, or clothes horse
* hatstand, also known as a coat rack, hall rack, or hat rack
* Drum rack, part of a drum kit
* Drying rack, for clothing
* Ejector rack or hardpoint for attaching external loads to an aircraft
* Firearm rack
* Flat rack container, a type of railroad freight car
* Hay rack, for feeding animals
* Laboratory drying rack, a for hanging and draining glassware
* Music rack or music stand, to hold sheet music for performance
* Newspaper rack, a newspaper vending machine
* Pallet racking, for storing palletised loads
* Pot rack for kitchen storage
* Roof rack, for a car top
* Shoe rack
* Spinner rack, a rotating frame for store merchandise
* Pipe rack, for supporting pipe or cable runs
* 19-inch rack or 23-inch rack, for computer and other electronic equipment
* Truck bed rack, a metal frame used to increase a truck bed's capacity

## Mechanics

* Power rack, a piece of weight training equipment
* The straight component of a rack and pinion pair
* 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

* The Rack (album) (1991), by Dutch death metal band Asphyx
* The Rack (1915 film), an American silent drama
* The Rack (1956 film), a courtroom drama starring Paul Newman
* Rack (album) (2024) by American rock band Jesus Lizard
* "Racks" (song) (2011), by American rapper Y. C.

## People and characters

* Rack or Marrack, a fictional character in the American TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer
* Edmund Rack (c.1735–1787), English writer
* Reinhard Rack (born 1945), Austrian politician
* Ricky Racks, pseudonym of American songwriter Ricky Harrell, Jr (born 1987)
* Simon Rack, fictional galactic secret agent created by American writer L. James in 1974
* Tom Rack, Canadian actor and writer (born 1983)

## Software

* Rack (web server interface), a Ruby API definition
* VCV Rack, a free software modular synthesizer

## Places and artifacts

* 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 station in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland

## Other uses

* Rackable Systems (NASDAQ symbol: RACK), former American computer manufacturer
* Rack or singlefoot, (racking), a horse gait
* Rack (climbing), the set of equipment carried up a climb
* Rack, a slang term for money, specifically £1,000
* Rack (billiards) or triangle, a frame for placing billiard balls in their starting positions
* Rack (torture)
* Rack of ribs, a cut of meat
* Rack of lamb, a cut of meat
* Rack-rent, a type of property rent
* Rack, a slang term for a women's breasts
* Racks and quandles, concepts in abstract algebra
* Argentine backbreaker rack, a professional wrestling move
* Rappel rack, a type of caving descender