RW

RW or rw may refer to:

In arts and entertainment

 * The Real World (TV series), an American reality television show
 * Road Wild, a World Championship Wrestling pay-per-view event
 * Robbie Williams, a British pop star
 * Robin Williams, an American actor
 * Roger Waters, British musician
 * Robot Wars (disambiguation)

In computing

 * Read–write access to files or directories, in file system permissions
 * Read–write memory
 * Rewritable media
 * RenderWare, a 3-D rendering engine produced by Criterion Software

Other uses in mathematics, science, and technology

 * Random walk, a mathematical process that can be used to explain phenomena in several disciplines
 * Reaction wheel, a type of flywheel used primarily by spacecraft for attitude control
 * Robertson–Walker metric, in cosmology
 * Robin Wight, botanist, noted as R.W.
 * RW is the designation for the 15th variable star named in a constellation:
 * RW Cephei, an orange hypergiant located in the constellation Cepheus
 * RW Cygni, a red supergiant located in the constellation Cygnus
 * RW Leonis Minoris, a carbon star located in the constellation Leo Minor
 * RW Ursae Minoris, a recurrent nova located in the constellation Ursa Minor
 * A right of way may be referred to in civil engineering and drafting contexts as R/W or RW

Other uses

 * Racewalking
 * Real world, another term for reality in several contexts
 * For other uses of "real world" see Real world (disambiguation)
 * Respondent witness, in law
 * Right-wing, one of the winger positions in sport
 * Right-wing politics
 * Rosewood, a type of wood used for guitar fingerboards
 * Rukun warga, an administrative division of Indonesia
 * Rwanda (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code)
 * .rw, country code top level domain (ccTLD) for Rwanda
 * Kinyarwanda, a language in Rwanda (ISO 639 alpha-2 code)
 * Republic Airlines (IATA airline designator)
 * Royal Wings, a Jordanian airline
 * Remote work