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Rut (mammalian reproduction) The rut (from the Latin ''rugire'', meaning "to roar") is the mating season of certain mammals, which includes ruminants such as deer, sheep, camels, goats, pronghorns, bison, giraffes and antelopes, and extends to others such as skunks and elepha ...

, the period of time when certain ruminants mate *

Rut (roads) A rut is a depression or groove worn into a road or path by the travel of wheels or skis. Ruts can be formed by wear, as from studded snow tires common in cold climate areas, or they can form through the deformation of the asphalt concrete, pavem ...

, a depression or groove worn into a road or path

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Rut (name) Rut is both a surname and a feminine German given name. Notable people with the name include: * Rut Bízková (born 1957), former Minister of Environment of the Czech Republic * Rut Brandt (1920–2006), German writer * Rut Bryk (1916–1999), Fi ...

Rut, Kardzhali Province Rut is a village in Dzhebel Municipality, Kardzhali Province, southern Bulgaria Bulgaria (; bg, България, Bǎlgariya), officially the Republic of Bulgaria,, ) is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern flank ...

, a village in southern Bulgaria *

Rut, Tolmin Rut (; formerly ''Nemški Rut'' or ''Nemška Koritnica'', german: Deutschruth; it, Rutte di Gracova) is a village north of Koritnica in the Municipality of Tolmin in the Littoral region of Slovenia. Name Rut was attested in historical sources as ...

, a village in western Slovenia *

The Ruts The Ruts (later known as Ruts DC) are an English reggae-influenced punk rock band, notable for the 1979 UK top 10 hit single "Babylon's Burning", and an earlier single "In a Rut", which was not a hit but was highly regarded and regularly pla ...

, a reggae-influenced British punk rock band * "Rut" (song), a 2017 song by the Killers *

The Rut The Rut is an international skyrunning competition held for the first time in 2013. It runs every year in Big Sky, Montana (United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or Ame ...

, American skyrunning race * Ticker symbol for the

Russell 2000 The Russell 2000 Index is a small-cap stock market index that makes up the smallest 2,000 stocks in the Russell 3000 Index. It was started by the Frank Russell Company in 1984. The index is maintained by FTSE Russell, a subsidiary of the London ...

Index * acronym for

Rho utilisation site Rho utilisation site, also known by the acronym rut, is a sequence of RNA in bacteria upstream of the terminator region which serves as a binding site for the protein known as rho factor. This sequence is necessary in rho-dependent termination of DN ...

in genetics

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