Gig

Gig or GIG may refer to:

  • Gig (musical performance), live performance by a musician or other performer
    • Temporary work, by extension
  • Gig (Northern Pikes album), 1993
  • Gig (Circle Jerks album), 1992
  • Gig, a multi-pronged spear similar to a trident
  • Gigging, the practice of hunting fish or frogs with a gig
  • Gig 'em, moniker used students and former students at Texas A&M University
  • Captain's gig, a boat used on naval ships as the Captain's taxi
  • Cornish pilot gig, a six-oared rowing boat, built of Cornish narrow leaf elm, 32 feet long with a beam of four feet ten inches
  • Gig (carriage), a 2-wheeled sprung cart to be pulled by a horse
  • Gig, the blade a professional wrestler uses to cut himself
  • Gig mark, a scar from blading in professional wrestling slang
  • GIG (Hot Wheels AcceleRacers), a character in Hot Wheels AcceleRacers
  • Giggleswick railway station (National Rail station code: GIG), in England
  • Rio de Janeiro-GaleĆ£o International Airport (IATA airport code: GIG), the main airport serving Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • Georgian Industrial Group, a large holding company in Georgia
  • Global Information Grid, a military global information network operated by the United States Department of Defense
  • Generalized inverse Gaussian distribution, a distribution in probability theory
  • GIG is an abbreviation for "GUYS Is Green" in Ultraman Mebius
  • Gig, short for gigabyte, a computer term, or a units of information

Famous quotes containing the word gig:

    Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.
    Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)