Drag

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Drag or The Drag may refer to:

Places

  • Drag, Norway, a village in Tysfjord municipality, Nordland, Norway
  • Drág, the Hungarian name for Dragu Commune in Sălaj County, Romania
  • Drag (Austin, Texas), the portion of Guadalupe Street adjacent to the University of Texas at Austin

Science and technology

  • Drag (physics), the force which resists motion of an object through a fluid
    • Aerodynamic drag
      , the aerodynamic force which resists motion of an aircraft or other object through the air
    • Drag parachute
      , a parachute to reduce the speed of vehicles
  • Park drag
    , a type of carriage
  • Drag, older name for
    grapnel anchor
  • Police drag
    , a small dredge used to recover objects or bodies lost in shallow water
  • Drag harrow, in agriculture, a heavy type of harrow used to break up soil
  • Drag system, a mechanical means of applying variable pressure to a fishing rod reel in order to act as a friction brake
  • Drag and drop, a computer input gesture

Arts and entertainment

Performance

  • Drag (entertainment), a form of exaggerated femininity or masculinity
  • Drag: Combing Through the Big Wigs of Show Business, a history book of drag queens by Frank DeCaro

Film and theatre

Music

  • To drag, in music, to play slower than the indicated tempo
  • Drag (percussion)
    , in drumming, one of the 26 rudiments, or basic patterns used in rudimental drumming

Artists

Genres

  • Witch house (genre), a subgenre of dark electronic music also known as drag
  • Slow Drag (dance)
    , a genre of blues dancing

Recordings

  • Drag (k.d. lang album), a 1997 album by k.d. lang
  • Drag (Red Aunts album), an album by the Red Aunts
  • "Drag", a song by King Adora released on the single "
    Drag/9" Of Pure Malice
    "
  • "The Drag", a song by Ty Segall from the album
    Ty Segall
  • "Drag", a song by Hole released on the single "Malibu"
  • "Drag", a song by Ronnie Linares and The Del-Aires
  • "Drag", a song by Steve Wynn
  • "Drag", a single by
    surf-pop singer Day Wave

Sport

Other uses

  • A deep inhalation of a cigarette, in slang
  • Dragging death, a death caused by someone being dragged behind or underneath a moving vehicle or animal.

See also