Drag

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Drag may refer to:

Contents 1 Computing 2 Culture 3 Objects 4 Places 5 Physics, Engineering 6 Sports 7 Other

[edit] Computing

• In computing, to drag a mouse's button and hold it down while moving the mouse, used in drag-and-drop

[edit] Culture

• Drag (clothing), slang for any costume, but particularly for clothes of one gender worn by the opposite gender
• In music, to drag is to play slower than the indicated tempo
• Drag (percussion), in drumming, one of the 26 rudiments, consisting of two light strokes with one hand followed by a strong stroke with the opposite hand
• DRAG* (band), UK punk band [1]
• Drag (band), a band from Australia
• Drag (film), a 1929 film
• Drag (album), a 1997 album by kd lang with a smoking motif
• Drag (Hellbillies album), an album by Hellbillies
• Drag (Red Aunts album), an album by the Red Aunts
• "Drag" (song), a track by Placebo (band) on their album Meds
• Drag (song), a song by Hole off their EP Malibu
• A "drag" is something that is considered tedious and boring.
• "Dragging" can refer to inhaling off a cigarette (usually tobacco) (ex. "Let me get a drag off your cigarette.")

[edit] Objects

• Park Drag, a type of carriage
• A heavy type of harrow (tool), used to break up ground in agriculture
• Police drag, a small dredge used to recover objects or bodies lost in shallow water

[edit] Places

• Drag, Norway, a village in Tysfjord municipality, Nordland, Norway

[edit] Physics, Engineering

• Drag (physics), a combination of aerodynamic or hydrodynamic forces which tends to reduce speed
• Drag coefficient

[edit] Sports

• Drag racing, a form of automobile racing

[edit] Other

• Dinitrogenase reductase activating glycohydrolase, an enzyme used in biochemistry