Guide (disambiguation)
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Guide may refer to:
- People
- Guide, or a tourist guide, a person who leads or conducts travellers or tourists
- Docent a guide at a Museum, University or Heritage place
- Tracker (occupation), an individual who can follow the path left behind by animals, people or machines
- Girl Guides, the female counterpart of the Boy Scouts
- Rainbow Guide, Brownie Guide, Ranger Guide; see: Age Groups in Scouting and Guiding
- A source of a useful introductory information, such as a book or software
- Manual, for example a computer's User's guide
- Knowledge management database. For example a university could write a guide for students on the facilities of that university.
- Guide book, for tourists
- Catalog, e.g. an academic course guide
- Price guide, a reference work containg prices of e.g. coins, collectibles, computers
- Electronic program guide, an on-screen guide to scheduled broadcast television programs
- Guide Plus, an interactive electronic programme guide system
- Other
- Guide (ship), a convict ship that transported six convicts from Calcutta, India to Fremantle, Western Australia in 1855
- The Guide, a novel by R. K. Narayan, an Indian author
- Guide (film), based on the novel
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a novel by Douglas Adams
- Guide, Lancashire, a village in England
- Guide (Adventist magazine), a weekly publication for 10–14 year olds
- Guide (hypertext), the first commercially sold hypertext system, now unused
- In mechanical usage, something that steadies or directs the motion of an object, for example
- the “leading” screw of a screw-cutting lathe
- a loose pulley used to steady a driving-belt