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 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, 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, a musical instrument resembling an archer's bow * EBow, 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

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, a district * Bow, Oxfordshire, 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, Washington

Canada

* The Bow (skyscraper), Calgary, Alberta * Bow River, Alberta

Other

* Bow (name), including a list of people with the surname or given name * Bow and warp of semiconductor wafers and substrates * Rema language (ISO-639: bow), Papuan language spoken in New Guinea