Lay may refer to:

Places

Lay Range The Lay Range is a small subrange of the Swannell Ranges of the Omineca Mountains, located between Lay Creek and Swannell River in northern British Columbia, Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three ter ...

, a subrange of mountains in British Columbia, Canada *

Lay, Loire Lay is a commune in the Loire department in central France. Population See also *Communes of the Loire department The following is a list of the 323 communes of the Loire department of France. The communes cooperate in the following interc ...

, a French commune *

Lay (river) The Lay () is a river in the Vendée ''departments of France, département'', western France. Its source is at Saint-Pierre-du-Chemin and it flows generally southwest. It flows into the Bay of Biscay between La Faute-sur-Mer and L'Aiguillon-sur- ...

, France *

Lay, Iran Lay ( fa, لاي, also romanized as Lāy) is a village in Dursun Khvajeh Rural District, in the Central District of Nir County, Ardabil Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a ...

, a village *

Lay, Kansas Sycamore is an Unincorporated area, unincorporated community in northern Montgomery County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population of the community and nearby areas was 70. It is located along U. ...

, United States, an unincorporated community

People

Lay (surname) Lay is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Alfred Morrison Lay (1836–1879), U.S. politician *Beirne Lay, Jr. (1909–1982), American author and World War II aviator *Benjamin Lay (1681–1760), English Quaker and abolitionist *Bo ...

Lay Raksmey Lay Raksmey (born October 29, 1989, in Cambodia) is a footballer for Asia Euro United in the Cambodian League. He has represented Cambodia at senior international level.. Retrieved August 31, 2012. Honours Club ; Svay Rieng * Cambodian Leagu ...

(born 1989), Cambodian footballer *

Lay Zhang Zhang Yixing (; born ), known professionally as Lay Zhang or simply Lay (), is a Chinese rapper, singer, songwriter, dancer, actor and businessman. Zhang first gained recognition for participating in the Chinese television talent show ''Star A ...

, Chinese rapper, music producer, actor, and member of the K-pop boy group Exo

Poetry

* A short

ballad A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads derive from the medieval French ''chanson balladée'' or ''ballade'', which were originally "dance songs". Ballads were particularly characteristic of the popular poetry and ...

lyrical poem Modern lyric poetry is a formal type of poetry which expresses personal emotions or feelings, typically spoken in the first person. It is not equivalent to song lyrics, though song lyrics are often in the lyric mode, and it is also ''not'' equi ...

* Heroic lay, a Germanic work of narrative verse * Breton lay * Lai (poetic form), ''lai'' (poetic form), a medieval French lay

Other uses

* Lay Dam, Alabama, United States * Lea (unit), obsolete unit of length sometimes spelled "Lay" * LA-Y, Yoshinobu Launch Complex, in Tanegashima, Japan * A characteristic of material surface finish * In betting, see Betting exchange#Backing and laying, Betting exchange § Backing and laying