Duck (disambiguation)

Duck is a name applied to several bird species of the family Anatidae.

Duck, The Duck or ducks may also refer to:

Places

• Duck, North Carolina, United States, a small town
• Duck, West Virginia, United States, an unincorporated community
• Monte Creek, British Columbia, Canada, a rural locality originally named "Ducks"
• Duck Creek (disambiguation)
• Duck Island (disambiguation)
• Duck Lake (disambiguation)
• Duck River (disambiguation)

People

• Duck (crossword compiler), pseudonym of Don Manley (born 1945), a British compiler of crosswords
• Duck (nickname)
• Duck (surname)

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

• Duck (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
• Duck, a character in the anime Princess Tutu
• Duck, a main character in the British TV show Sarah & Duck
• Duck, a character from the Animated TV series WordWorld
• Duck the Great Western Engine, a character from the Railway Series by Rev. W. Awdry
• Duck Phillips, a character on the AMC television series Mad Men
• Ducks, a fictional race of sentient creatures in the Glorantha setting for the fantasy role-playing games RuneQuest and Suikoden

Film and television

• Duck (film), a 2005 film by Nic Batterau
• Duck! The Carbine High Massacre, a 2006 film about a fictional school shooting
• Duck, a BBC Two television ident first aired in 1997 (see BBC Two '1991–2001' idents)
• "Duck! / Aren't You Chupacabra To See Me?", an episode of The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy
• "Ducks", an episode of the television series Teletubbies

Other media

• "The Duck" (song), a 1966 hit single by Jackie Lee
• Duck (video game), a 1987 puzzle platform game for NES
• Duck (album), a 2019 album by Kaiser Chiefs

Brands and enterprises

• Duck Brand, a duct tape brand now used on a variety of products
• Duck Records, a record label
• Duck Studios, a production studio based in Los Angeles, California
• On2 Technologies, formerly The Duck Corporation, which designed video codec technology

Sports and games

• Duck (bridge), a tactic in the card game of contract bridge
• Duck (cricket), a cricketing term denoting a batsman being dismissed with a score of zero
• Anaheim Ducks, a hockey team
• Long Island Ducks, a minor league baseball team
• Oregon Ducks, the sports teams of the University of Oregon

Transportation

• American Canyon Transit, also known as "The Duck"
• Citroën 2CV, a car model nicknamed "The Duck"
• Ducati, a motorcycle company, sometimes shortened to "Duc" or "Duck"
• Duck (ship), one of several vessels by that name
• DUKW, commonly pronounced "duck", an amphibious six-wheel drive vehicle used by the US military during World War II
• Goodyear Duck, a 1940s amphibian aircraft
• Grumman JF Duck, a 1930s biplane amphibious aircraft built for the US Navy
• Grumman J2F Duck, amphibious aircraft derived from the JF Duck

Other uses

• Duck, a lead weight used by draftsmen to hold splines in place
• Duck, a hypocorism or affectionate phrase, often used in parts of the Midlands and South Yorkshire in England, originally derived from the title Duke
• Duck, a very short cave sump
• Duck, in architecture, any building in the shape of something associated with it; named for the Big Duck
• Cotton duck, a fine strong cloth made from untwilled linen, later cotton
• Duck as food, the meat of the bird
• Duck Samford Stadium, a football stadium in Auburn, Alabama, nicknamed "The Duck"
• "Duck", the victim of Ducking (slang), a technique for manipulating prison staff
• Ducks (hiking) or cairn, a pile of three or more stones used to mark an off-trail hiking route

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with duck
• All pages with titles containing duck
• Ducking, an audio effect commonly used in radio and music
• Duckie (disambiguation)
• Ducky (disambiguation)