Rugby may refer to:
Sport
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Rugby football
Rugby football is the collective name for the team sports of rugby union and rugby league.
Canadian football and, to a lesser extent, American football were once considered forms of rugby football, but are seldom now referred to as such. The ...
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Rugby league
Rugby league football, commonly known as just rugby league and sometimes football, footy, rugby or league, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field measuring 68 metres (75 yards) wide and 112 ...
: 13 players per side
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Masters Rugby League
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Mod league
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Rugby league nines
Rugby league nines (or simply nines) is a version of rugby league football played with nine players on each side. The game is substantially the same as full rugby league, with some differences in rules and shorter games. Nines is usually played in ...
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Rugby league sevens
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Touch (sport)
Touch (also known as touch football or touch rugby) is a variant of rugby league that is conducted under the direction of the Federation of International Touch (FIT). Though it shares similarities and history with rugby league, it is recognised ...
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Wheelchair rugby league
Wheelchair rugby league is a wheelchair-based version of rugby league football, one of two recognised disability versions of the sport. It was developed by French rugby league player, coach and official, Wally Salvan in 2004. Unlike other wheelcha ...
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Rugby union
Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In it ...
: 15 players per side
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American flag rugby
American flag rugby (AFR) is a mixed-gender, non-contact version of rugby union played in the USA, and is a variant of the sport Tag Rugby. American flag rugby is designed for American children entering grades Kâ9. The organization itself exis ...
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Beach rugby
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Mini rugby
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Rugby sevens, 7 players per side
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Rugby tens
Rugby tens, also known as ten-a-side and Xs, is a variant of rugby union in which teams are made up of ten players, typically five forwards and five backs. Matches are much shorter, usually played as two ten-minute halves.
Unlike the other tw ...
, 10 players per side
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Snow rugby
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Touch rugby
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Tambo rugby
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Tag rugby
Tag-rugby belt
Tag rugby, or flag rugby, is a non-contact team game in which each player wears a belt that has two velcro tags attached to it, or shorts with velcro patches. The mode of play is based on rugby league with many similarities to t ...
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Rugby Fives
Rugby Fives is a handball game, similar to squash, played in an enclosed court. It has similarities with Winchester Fives (a form of Wessex Fives) and Eton Fives. It is played mainly in the United Kingdom.
It is most commonly believed to be ...
, a handball game, similar to squash, played in an enclosed court
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Underwater rugby, an underwater sport played in a swimming pool and named after rugby football
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Rugby ball, a ball for use in rugby football
Arts and entertainment
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'' Rugby'' (video game), the 2000 installment of Electronic Arts' Rugby video game series
* ''Rugby'', second movement of ''Mouvements symphoniques'' by
Arthur Honegger
Arthur Honegger (; 10 March 1892 â 27 November 1955) was a Swiss composer who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. A member of Les Six, his best known work is probably ''Antigone'', composed between 1924 and 1927 t ...
Brands and enterprises
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Rugby (automobile)
The Rugby was a brand of automobiles assembled by the Durant Motors Company of New York City, New York (USA). Beside badges and right-hand drive for some models, the vehicle was identical to Durant's Star car, and was assigned to export markets ...
, made by Durant Motors
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Rugby Cement
Rugby Cement was the common name for a company based principally in Rugby, Warwickshire, which produced portland cement. With its origins in the early 19th century, the company was founded in 1862 as the Rugby Lias Lime & Cement Company Ltd befor ...
, a former UK PLC, now a subsidiary of Cemex
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Rugby Ralph Lauren
Rugby Ralph Lauren was an American clothing brand launched in 2004 under the management of parent company Polo Ralph Lauren, the line has been retired. The brand specialised in Preppy/Rugby inspired lifestyle apparel for male and female clientele ...
, a brand from fashion designer Ralph Lauren
Places
United Kingdom
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Rugby, Warwickshire
Rugby is a market town in eastern Warwickshire, England, close to the River Avon. In the 2021 census its population was 78,125, making it the second-largest town in Warwickshire. It is the main settlement within the larger Borough of Rugby whi ...
, a town
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Rugby (UK Parliament constituency)
Rugby is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since its 2010 recreation by Mark Pawsey, a Conservative.
History
1885â1918: The Petty Sessional Divisions of Rugby, Southam, Burton Dassett and Kingston, and Ken ...
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Borough of Rugby
The Borough of Rugby is a local government district with borough status in eastern Warwickshire, England. The borough comprises the town of Rugby where the council has its headquarters, and the rural areas surrounding the town. The borough has a ...
United States
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Rugby, Colorado
Rugby is an unincorporated community in Las Animas County, in the U.S. state of Colorado.
History
A post office called Rugby was established in 1900, and remained in operation until 1947. The community was named after Rugby
Rugby may refer to:
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Rugby, Indiana
Rugby is an unincorporated community in Haw Creek Township, Bartholomew County, in the U.S. state of Indiana
Indiana () is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. It is the 38th-largest by area and the 17th-most populous of the 5 ...
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Rugby, North Dakota
Rugby is a city in, and the county seat of, Pierce County, North Dakota, United States. The population was 2,509 at the 2020 census, making it the 19th largest city in North Dakota. Rugby was founded in 1886.
Rugby is often billed as the geog ...
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Rugby, Virginia
Rugby is an unincorporated community in Grayson County, Virginia
Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States, between the Atlantic Coast and the Appal ...
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Rugby, Tennessee
Rugby is an unincorporated community in Morgan and Scott counties in the U.S. state of Tennessee. Founded in 1880 by English author Thomas Hughes, Rugby was built as an experimental utopian colony. While Hughes's experiment largely failed, a sm ...
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Rugby Junction, Wisconsin
Rugby Junction is an unincorporated community in the town of Polk, Washington County, Wisconsin, United States.
History
The night of October 16, 1901, two Chicago-bound freight trains collided on the Wisconsin Central Railway tracks between Col ...
* ''Rugby'' was a former name for
Remsen Village, Brooklyn
Remsen Village, also formerly known as Rugby, is a neighborhood in central Brooklyn, New York City. It comprises the eastern part of the larger neighborhood of East Flatbush, Brooklyn, East Flatbush area, and is administered by Brooklyn Community B ...
Elsewhere
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Rugby, New South Wales
Rugby is a village in the Southern Tablelands region of New South Wales, Australia. The village is in the Hilltops Council local government area, south west of the state capital, Sydney and north of the national capital, Canberra.
The village ...
, Australia
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Rugby Park
Rugby Park, also known as The BBSP Stadium Rugby Park for sponsorship reasons, is a football stadium situated in the Scottish town of Kilmarnock. It was first used in 1899 and is the home of Kilmarnock F.C. Rugby Park has also been used for co ...
, Kilmarnock FC's stadium, Scotland
Transportation
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Rugby (automobile)
The Rugby was a brand of automobiles assembled by the Durant Motors Company of New York City, New York (USA). Beside badges and right-hand drive for some models, the vehicle was identical to Durant's Star car, and was assigned to export markets ...
, made by Durant Motors
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Rugby station (disambiguation) Rugby station or Rugby railway station may refer to:
* Rugby railway station, a railway station in Rugby, Warwickshire, England
* Rugby Central railway station, a former railway station in Rugby, Warwickshire
* Rugby Parkway railway station, a propo ...
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Rugby Street, a street in
Bloomsbury, London
Other uses
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Rugby boy
Rugby boys ( fil, batang ragbi) are a collective term for gangs of street children found in the Philippines. They are one of the most well-known poverty-afflicted people found in the slums of the Philippines. They are known for using and being a ...
, street children in the Philippines
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Rugby School
Rugby School is a public school (English independent boarding school for pupils aged 13â18) in Rugby, Warwickshire, England.
Founded in 1567 as a free grammar school for local boys, it is one of the oldest independent schools in Britain. ...
, Rugby, Warwickshire, England
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Baron Rugby, a title in the British peerage
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Rugby Radio Station
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Rugby Radio Station was a large radio transmission facility just east of the Hillmorton area of the town of Rugby, Warwickshire in England. The site straddled the A5 trunk road, with most of it in Warwickshire, and part on the other ...
, a former very low-frequency radio transmission facility in Rugby, Warwickshire, England
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Rugby services
Rugby services is a motorway service station operated by Moto Hospitality and situated at junction 1 of the M6 motorway in Warwickshire, England.
History
The services has been built to fill one of the largest gaps without services on the major ...
, a motorway service station in England
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