Tug (disambiguation)

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A tug or tugboat is a boat that maneuvers vessels by pushing or towing them.

Tug or TUG may also refer to:

Transportation

• A powerful aircraft used to tow gliders
• A common nickname for pushback tow tractors used at airports

Geography

• Tuğ, Azerbaijan, a village
• Tug Fork, a tributary of the Big Sandy River in the United States

As a nickname

• Tug Arundel (1862–1912), American Major League Baseball catcher
• Tug Hulett (born 1983), American baseball player
• Tug McGraw (1944-2004), Major League Baseball pitcher
• Tug Thompson (1856-1938), Major League Baseball player
• Tug Wilson (disambiguation), various people
• Tug Yourgrau, American playwright and TV producer
• Tug O'Neale, fictional character in the Australian soap opera Far and Away

Arts and entertainment

• Tug (film), a 2013 film
• Tugs (TV series), a British children's TV series
• Tug Records, a record label

TUG

• TÜBİTAK National Observatory ((Turkish: TÜBİTAK Ulusal Gozlemevi), an astronomical observatory in southern Turkey
• TeX Users Group
• Timed Up and Go test, a simple test to assess a person's physical mobility
• The Ultimate Group, a record label and management company

Other uses

• Banner of the Mongols (also known as a tug), a symbol of power in Mongol and Turkish states
• Tacoma Tugs, former name of minor league baseball team the Tacoma Rainiers
• ISO 639 code for the Tunia language of Chad
• nickname for King's Scholars at Eton College
• A slang term for male masturbation