Bow most often refers to: *

Bow and arrow The bow and arrow is a ranged weapon system consisting of an elasticity (physics), elastic launching device (bow) and long-shafted projectiles (arrows). Humans used bows and arrows for hunting and aggression long before recorded history, and the ...

, a weapon *

Bowing Bowing (also called stooping) is the act of lowering the torso and Human head, 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 E ...

, 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 mate ...

Bow may also refer to: *

Bow (watercraft) The bow () is the forward part of the hull of a ship or boat, the point that is usually most forward when the vessel is underway. The aft end of the boat is the stern. Prow may be used as a synonym for bow or it may mean the forward-most part ...

, the foremost part of a ship or boat *

Bow (position) In rowing, the bow (or bow woman 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. I ...

, 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 The bow tie or dicky bow is a type of neckwear, distinguishable from a necktie because it does not drape down the shirt placket, but is tied just underneath a winged collar. A modern bow tie is tied using a common shoelace knot, which is also ...

, a type of necktie * Pussy bow, 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, whi ...

, used to play a stringed instrument *

Musical bow The musical bow (bowstring or string bow, a subset of bar zithers) is a simple string instrument used by a number of African peoples as well as Indigenous peoples of the Americas. It consists of a flexible, usually wooden, stick 1.5 to 10 feet ...

, a musical instrument resembling an archer's bow *

EBow The EBow is an electronic device used for playing string instruments, most often the electric guitar. It was invented by the American guitarist Greg Heet in 1969 and introduced in 1976. The EBow uses a pickup and a magnetic feedback circuit to ...

, electronic device for playing the electric guitar * Bows (band), a band from the UK * B.O.W. (born 1970), Finnish rapper

Porcelain

Bow porcelain factory The Bow porcelain factory (active c. 1747–64 and closed in 1776) was an emulative rival of the Chelsea porcelain factory in the manufacture of early soft-paste porcelain in Great Britain. The two London factories were the first in England. I ...

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 2021 census, it had a population of 1,120, which was slightly more than the 1,095 recorded at the 2011 Census. There i ...

, 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 c ...

in South Devon *

Bow, London Bow () is a district in East London, England and is in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is an inner-city suburb located east of Charing Cross. Historic counties of England, Historically in Middlesex, it became part of the County of L ...

, a district *

Bow, Oxfordshire Bow is a hamlet contiguous with Stanford in the Vale in Oxfordshire Oxfordshire ( ; abbreviated ''Oxon'') is a ceremonial county in South East England. The county is bordered by Northamptonshire and Warwickshire to the north, Buckingh ...

, a hamlet

United States

* Bow, Kentucky *

Bow, New Hampshire Bow is a town in Merrimack County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 8,229 at the 2020 census, up from 7,519 at the 2010 census, an increase of 9.4%. History The town was granted by the authorities of New Hampshire to Jonathan ...

Bow, Washington Bow is an Unincorporated area, unincorporated community and census-designated placein Skagit County, Washington. It is located near the towns of Bay View, Washington, Bay View, Edison, Washington, Edison, Burlington, Washington, Burlington, and M ...

Canada

The Bow (skyscraper) The Bow is a skyscraper in Downtown Calgary, downtown Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The 236 metre (774 ft) building was the tallest in Calgary between July 8, 2010, when it surpassed the Suncor Energy Centre, and May 11, 2016, when it was exc ...

, Calgary, Alberta *

Bow River The headwaters of the Bow River in Alberta, Canada, start at the Bow Glacier and Bow Lake (Alberta), Bow Lake in Banff National Park in the Canadian Rockies, Canadian Rocky Mountains. The glacial stream that feeds Bow Lake (Alberta), Bow Lake ...

, Alberta

Other

Bow (name) Bow is an English surname. It is also a given name. People with the name include: Surname * Robert Henry Bow (1827–1909), Scottish civil engineer and photographer * Richard Bow (1868–1941), Australian politician from Queensland *Lily Lawren ...

, including a list of people with the surname or given name *

Bow and warp of semiconductor wafers and substrates Bow and warp of semiconductor wafers and substrates are measures of the flatness of wafers. Definitions Bow is the deviation of the center point of the median surface of a free, un-clamped wafer from the reference plane, where the reference plan ...

Rema language Rema, also known as Bothar, is a nearly extinct Papuan language The Papuan languages are the non-Austronesian languages spoken on the western Pacific island of New Guinea, as well as neighbouring islands in Indonesia, Solomon Islands, and East T ...

(ISO-639: bow), Papuan language spoken in New Guinea