A tug or tugboat is a boat that maneuvers vessels by pushing or towing them.
Tug or TUG may also refer to:
Transportation A powerful aircraft used to tow gliders A common nickname for pushback tow tractors used at airports Towboat Turnham Green tube station, London, London Underground station code TUG
Geography Tuğ, Azerbaijan, a village Tug Fork, a tributary of the Big Sandy River in the United States
As a nickname Tug Arundel (1862–1912), American Major League Baseball catcher Tug Hulett (born 1983), American baseball player Tug McGraw (1944–2004), Major League Baseball pitcher Tug Thompson (1856–1938), Major League Baseball player Tug Wilson (disambiguation), various people Tug Yourgrau, American playwright and TV producer Tug O'Neale, fictional character in the Australian soap opera Far and Away
Arts and entertainment Tug (film), a 2010 film Tugs (TV series), a British children's TV series Tug Records, a record label
TUG TÜBİTAK National Observatory (Turkish: TÜBİTAK Ulusal Gozlemevi), an astronomical observatory in southern Turkey TeX Users Group Timed Up and Go test, a simple test to assess a person's physical mobility The Ultimate Group, a record label and management company Technical University of Gdańsk, former name of Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland
Other uses Tug (banner), a symbol of power in Mongol and Turkish states Tacoma Tugs, former name of minor league baseball team the Tacoma Rainiers Tuguegarao Airport's IATA code ISO 639 code for the Tunia language of Chad nickname for King's Scholars at Eton College A slang term for male masturbation
See also Tugg (disambiguation)