Ruch may refer to:

Settlements

* Ruch, Gironde, a commune in France *

Ruch, Oregon Ruch is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Jackson County, Oregon, United States. It is located on Oregon Route 238, southeast of Grants Pass. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 840. Ruch was named for Ca ...

, an unincorporated community in Jackson County, Oregon *

Ruch-e Olya Ruch-e Olya ( fa, روچ عليا, also Romanized as Rūch-e ‘Olyā) is a village in Alamut-e Pain Rural District, Rudbar-e Alamut District, Qazvin County, Qazvin Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, an ...

, a village in Qazvin Province, Iran *

Ruch-e Sofla, Qazvin Ruch-e Sofla ( fa, روچ سفلي, also Romanized as Rūch-e Soflá) is a village in Alamut-e Pain Rural District, Rudbar-e Alamut District, Qazvin County, Qazvin Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and ...

, a village in Qazvin Province, Iran

In Poland

One of the meanings of ''ruch'' in Polish is ''movement''.

Sport

Ruch Chorzów Ruch Chorzów () is a Polish association football club based in Chorzów, Upper Silesia. It is one of the most successful football teams in Poland: fourteen-time national champions, and three-time winners of the Polish Cup. Currently the team play ...

, a football club from Poland *

Ruch Radzionków Ruch Radzionków is a Polish association football club based in Radzionków. The club was disaffiliated in 2012 due to financial problems and the board has decided to withdraw from the competition in season 2012/2013. Instead Ruch Radzionków pla ...

, a football club from Poland *

Ruch Wysokie Mazowieckie Ruch Wysokie Mazowieckie is a Polish football club playing currently in III liga III liga (Trzecia liga) is a Polish football league that sits in the fourth tier of the Polish football league system. Until the end of the 2007–08 season, ...

, a football club from Poland * Ruch Zdzieszowice, a football club from Poland

Organisations

Prasa-Książka-Ruch The RSW Prasa-Książka-Ruch literally the Workers' Publishing Cooperative abbreviated to RSW ( pl, Robotnicza Spółdzielnia Wydawnicza ), was a state-owned newspaper monopoly in communist Poland founded on 1 January 1973 by the Polish United W ...

, a state-owned newspaper monopoly in communist Poland *

Ruch catalog The Ruch catalog of postage stamps of Poland, officially titled ''Ilustrowany Katalog Znaczków Polskich'', contained detailed information on Polish postage stamps, and was published on a yearly basis. The purpose of the catalog was to describe pos ...

(Ilustrowany Katalog Znaczków Polskich), catalogue of postage stamps *

Ruch Narodowy National Movement ( pl, Ruch Narodowy, RN) is an ultranationalist political party in Poland. It is led by Robert Winnicki. It was founded in 2012 as an organization, and in 2014 it was registered as a political party. It is a part of the Confe ...

, a Polish far-right political party *

Ruch Palikota Your Movement ( pl, Twój Ruch, which can also be translated as ''Your Move'', TR) is a social liberal, populist and anti-clerical political party in Poland. The party was founded by Janusz Palikot, a former Civic Platform MP, in October 2010 a ...

, a former Polish political party * Ruch (organisation), a former Polish underground organisation

People

Notable people with the surname Ruch include: * Angela Ruch (born 1983), American stock car racing driver * Charlie Ruch (1862–1937), American businessman, owner and president of the Philadelphia Phillies from 1930 to 1932 * Daniel Ruch (born 1983), American soccer coach * Dave Ruch (born 1964), American performer and teaching artist * Günter Ruch (1956–2010), German writer and politician * Hans Ruch (1898–1947), German footballer * John Ruch (1834–1912), member of the Wisconsin State Assembly * Peter Ruch (born 1941), Swiss Olympic shooter *

Stewart E. Ruch III Stewart E. Ruch III is an American Anglican bishop. He has been the first bishop of the Anglican Diocese of the Upper Midwest at the Anglican Church in North America, since his consecration on 28 September 2013. He is married to Katherine and th ...

(consecrated 2013), American Anglican bishop

Other uses

* Ruch (river), Perm Krai, Russia *

Ruching In knitting, a gather draws stitches closer together within a row of knitting. Common methods include: * In binding, a yarn loop is passed over 2 or more stitches in the same row (usually adjacent to the binding loop); also known as a ''pullover ...