Bow often refers to: *

Bow and arrow The bow and arrow is a ranged weapon system consisting of an elastic launching device (bow) and long-shafted projectiles ( arrows). Humans used bows and arrows for hunting and aggression long before recorded history, and the practice was comm ...

, a weapon *

Bowing Bowing (also called stooping) is the act of lowering the torso and head as a social gesture in direction to another person or symbol. It is most prominent in Asian cultures but it is also typical of nobility and aristocracy in many European coun ...

, bending the upper body as a social gesture * An ornamental knot made of

ribbon A ribbon or riband is a thin band of material, typically cloth but also plastic or sometimes metal, used primarily as decorative binding and tying. Cloth ribbons are made of natural materials such as silk, cotton, and jute and of synthetic mater ...

Bow may also refer to: *

Bow (watercraft) The bow () is the forward part of the hull of a ship or boat, the point that is usually most forward when the vessel is underway. The aft end of the boat is the stern. Prow may be used as a synonym for bow or it may mean the forward-most part ...

, the foremost part of a ship or boat *

Bow (position) In rowing, the bow (or bowman or bowperson) is the rower seated closest to the bow of the boat, which is the forward part of the boat. The other end of the boat is called the stern, and the rower seated there is called the stroke. In a bow-coxed ...

, the rower seated in the bow of a racing shell

Knots

* Bow knot, a

shoelace knot The shoelace knot, or bow knot, is commonly used for tying shoelaces and bow ties. The shoelace knot is a doubly slipped reef knot formed by joining the ends of whatever is being tied with a half hitch, folding each of the exposed ends into a ...

or a rosette *

Bow tie The bow tie is a type of necktie. A modern bow tie is tied using a common shoelace knot, which is also called the bow knot for that reason. It consists of a ribbon of fabric tied around the collar of a shirt in a symmetrical manner so that th ...

, a type of necktie *

Pussy bow A lavallière, also called a pussycat bow or pussybow, is a style of neckwear worn with women's and girls' blouses and bodices. It is a bow tied at the neck, which has been likened to those sometimes put on "pussy cats". History While bows at th ...

, a style of neckwear

Music

Bow (music) In music, a bow is a tensioned stick which has hair (usually horse-tail hair) coated in rosin (to facilitate friction) affixed to it. It is moved across some part (generally some type of strings) of a musical instrument to cause vibration, which ...

, used to play a stringed instrument *

Musical bow The musical bow (bowstring or string bow, a subset of bar zithers) is a simple string instrument used by a number of South African peoples, which is also found in the Americas via slave trade. It consists of a flexible, usually wooden, stick 1. ...

, a musical instrument resembling an archer's bow *

EBow The EBow, short for electronic bow or energy bow, is an electronic device used for playing string instruments, most often the electric guitar. It is manufactured by Heet Sound Products, of Los Angeles, California. It was invented by Greg Heet i ...

, electronic device for playing the electric guitar *

Bows (band) Bows were a United Kingdom, British-based band, who have released two albums on the Too Pure record label, label. History Following the dissolution of his former band Long Fin Killie, multi-instrumentalist Luke Sutherland formed Bows with the De ...

, a band from the UK

Porcelain

Bow porcelain factory The Bow porcelain factory (active c. 1747–64 and closed in 1776) was an emulative rival of the Chelsea porcelain factory in the manufacture of early soft-paste porcelain in Great Britain. The two London factories were the first in England. It ...

Places

England

Bow, Devon Bow () is a village and civil parish in the Mid Devon district of Devon, England, about west of Crediton. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 1,093 practically unchanged at the 2011 Census. There is an adjoining hamlet of Nym ...

, a village in mid Devon * Bow, a hamlet in the parish of

Ashprington Ashprington is a village and civil parish in the South Hams district of Devon, England. The village is not far from the River Dart, but high above it, and is about three miles south of Totnes. There is a local pub, hotel and phonebox. The civ ...

in South Devon *

Bow, London Bow () is an area of East London within the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is primarily a built-up and mostly residential area and is east of Charing Cross. It was in the traditional county of Middlesex but became part of the County of ...

, a district *

Bow, Oxfordshire Bow is a hamlet contiguous with Stanford in the Vale Stanford in the Vale is a village and civil parish in the Vale of White Horse about southeast of Faringdon and northwest of Wantage. It is part of the historic county of Berkshire, howe ...

, a hamlet

United States

Bow, Kentucky Bow is an unincorporated area, unincorporated community in Cumberland County, Kentucky, Cumberland County, Kentucky, United States. It lies along Kentucky Route 90, Route 90 southeast of the city of Burkesville, Kentucky, Burkesville, the county ...

Bow, New Hampshire Bow is a town in Merrimack County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 8,229 at the 2020 census, up from 7,519 at the 2010 census, an increase of 9.4%. History The town was granted by the authorities of New Hampshire to Jonathan Wi ...

Bow, Washington Bow is an unincorporated community in Skagit County, Washington. It is located near the towns of Bay View, Edison, Burlington, and Mount Vernon. Bow is included in the Mount Vernon- Anacortes, Washington Metropolitan Statistical Area. Bow overlo ...

Canada

The Bow (skyscraper) The Bow is a skyscraper in downtown Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The 236 metre (774 ft) building is currently the second tallest office tower in Calgary, since construction of Cenovus' Brookfield Place; and the third tallest in Canada outsi ...

, Calgary, Alberta *

Bow River The Bow River is a river in Alberta, Canada. It begins within the Canadian Rocky Mountains and winds through the Alberta foothills onto the prairies, where it meets the Oldman River, the two then forming the South Saskatchewan River. These w ...

, Alberta

Other

Bow (name) Bow is an English surname. It is also a given name. People with the name include: Surname *Robert Henry Bow (1827–1909), Scottish civil engineer and photographer *Richard Bow (1868–1941), Australian politician from Queensland *Lily Lawrence ...

, including a list of people with the surname or given name *

Bow and warp of semiconductor wafers and substrates Bow and warp of semiconductor wafers and substrates are measures of the flatness of wafers. Definitions Bow is the deviation of the center point of the median surface of a free, un-clamped wafer from the reference plane, where the reference plane ...

Rema language Rema, also known as Bothar, is a nearly extinct Papuan language The Papuan languages are the non- Austronesian and non-Australian languages spoken on the western Pacific island of New Guinea in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, as well as neighbo ...

(ISO-639: bow), Papuan language spoken in New Guinea