Gig

Gig or GIG may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

 * Concert, known informally as a gig
 * The Gig, a 1985 film written and directed by Frank D. Gilroy
 * Gig (Circle Jerks album) (1992)
 * GIG (Hot Wheels AcceleRacers), a character
 * Gig (Northern Pikes album) (1993)
 * "GUYS Is Green" ("G.I.G.!"), in the Japanese television series Ultraman Mebius
 * KGIG-LP ("104.9 The Gig"), an FM radio station licensed to Modesto, California, US

Transportation

 * Gig (boat), a type of boat
 * Gig (carriage), a two-wheeled sprung cart to be pulled by a horse
 * Cornish pilot gig, a six-oared rowing boat
 * Rio de Janeiro–Galeão International Airport (IATA airport code), the main airport serving Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
 * Giggleswick railway station (National Rail station code), Yorkshire, England
 * Gig Car Share, a carsharing service in parts of the San Francisco Bay Area

Science and technology

 * Gigabyte (colloquial gig), a computer unit of information
 * 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

People

 * Gig Gangel (born 1958), Playboy Playmate of the Month for January 1980
 * Gig Morton (born 1996), Canadian actor
 * Gig Ryan (born 1956), Australian poet born Elizabeth Anne Martina Ryan
 * Gig Young (1913–1978), American actor born Byron Elsworth Barr

Other uses

 * Gig-mill, a machine for the gigging of textiles that produce a fibrous and soft surface.
 * Georgian Industrial Group, a holding company in Georgia
 * Gig, temporary work for a specified time
 * Gig, a multi-pronged spear used in gigging or hunting fish or small game
 * Gig, the blade a professional wrestler uses to cut himself; See List of professional wrestling terms
 * GIG Cymru, the Welsh-language name for NHS Wales