Up most often refers to the

relative direction In geometry, direction, also known as spatial direction or vector direction, is the common characteristic of all ray (geometry), rays which coincide when translation (geometry), translated to share a common endpoint; equivalently, it is the commo ...

opposed to down. Up or UP may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Film

* ''Up!'' (1976 film), a sex comedy by Russ Meyer * ''Up'' (1984 film), an Oscar-winning short film by Mike Hoover and Tim Huntley * ''Up'' (2009 film), an animated feature by Disney/Pixar

Music

Bands

* The Up, a Detroit protopunk band

Albums

* ''Up'' (ABC album), 1989 * ''Up'' (Right Said Fred album), 1992 * ''Up'' (Great Big Sea album), 1995 * ''Up'' (R.E.M. album), 1998 * ''Up'' (Peter Gabriel album), 2002 * ''Up!'' (album), by Shania Twain, 2002 * ''Up'' (soundtrack), for the Disney/Pixar film, 2009 * ''Up'' (Pop Evil album), 2015

Songs

* "Up" (Aespa song), 2024 * "Up" (Cardi B song), 2021 * "Up" (Inna song), 2021 * "Up" (James Morrison song), 2011 * "Up" (Olly Murs song), 2014 * "Up" (The Saturdays song), 2008 * "Up!" (Bini & BGYO song), 2022 * "Up!" (LoveRance song), 2011 * "Up!" (Samantha Jade song), 2014 * "Up!" (Shania Twain song), 2002 * "Up", a 2021 song by

Dune Rats Dune Rats are an Australian rock band from Brisbane, Queensland. Originally, the band formed as a duo, with Danny Beus on guitar and lead vocals and BC Michael Marks on drums and backing vocals. The band later became a three-piece, with Brett J ...

* "Up", a song by Justin Bieber from the 2010 album '' My World 2.0'' * "Up!", a song by M83 from the 2008 album ''

Saturdays = Youth ''Saturdays = Youth'' is the fifth studio album by French electronic music band M83, released on 11 April 2008 by Virgin Records. The album was produced by Ken Thomas, with co-production by Ewan Pearson and M83 frontman Anthony Gonzalez. The a ...

'' * "Up", a song by Nav from the 2017 mixtape '' Nav'' * "Up", a song by Oneohtrix Point Never from the 2011 album ''

Replica A replica is an exact (usually 1:1 in scale) copy or remake of an object, made out of the same raw materials, whether a molecule, a work of art, or a commercial product. The term is also used for copies that closely resemble the original, without ...

'' * "Up", a 2007 song by

Rob Crow Robertdale Rulon Crow Jr. (born February 21, 1971) is an American singer and musician from San Diego, California, known for his involvement with the bands Pinback, Heavy Vegetable, Physics (band), Physics, Optiganally Yours, Goblin Cock, and Thi ...

* "Up", a song by Take That from the 2017 album '' Wonderland''

Television

Up (TV channel) UP TV (stylized as UPtv; formerly GMC TV and originally Gospel Music Channel) is an American basic cable television network that was founded to have a focus on gospel music. It has expanded into family-friendly original movies, series, and special ...

, formerly known as GMC * ''Up'' (TV program), on MSNBC * ''Up'' (film series), a British documentary series following several people over their lives

Other arts and entertainment

* ''Up'' (video game), based on the Disney/Pixar film * ''Up!'', a musical comedy also known as ''

Via Galactica ''Via Galactica'' is a rock musical with a book by Christopher Gore and Judith Ross, lyrics by Gore, and music by Galt MacDermot. It marked the Broadway debut of actor Mark Baker. Originally entitled ''Up!'', it offers a futuristic story of so ...

Businesses

* Up (airline), a former low-cost airline * Bahamasair, IATA airline code UP *

Union Pacific Railroad The Union Pacific Railroad is a Railroad classes, Class I freight-hauling railroad that operates 8,300 locomotives over routes in 23 U.S. states west of Chicago and New Orleans. Union Pacific is the second largest railroad in the United Stat ...

Union Pearson Express The Union Pearson Express (UP Express or UPX) is an airport rail link connecting Union Station (Toronto), Union Station in Downtown Toronto to Toronto Pearson International Airport. The UP Express began operation on 6 June 2015, in time for the ...

, or UP Express, an airport rail link in Toronto, Canada *

United Press International United Press International (UPI) is an American international news agency whose newswires, photo, news film, and audio services provided news material to thousands of newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations for most of the 20th ce ...

, a news agency * Abbreviation for

university press A university press is an academic publishing house specializing in monographs and scholarly journals. They are often an integral component of a large research university. They publish work that has been reviewed by scholars in the field. They pro ...

Up (Australian bank) Up, also known as Up Money and Up Banking, is an Australian neobank based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia with more than 900,000 mostly young Australian customers. Founded in 2018, Up was created as a collaboration between software devel ...

, a digital bank

Places

-up -up is a suffix commonly found in Toponym, place names in South West (Western Australia), south western Western Australia. The suffix originated in a dialect of Noongar, an Australian Aboriginal language, in which "-up" means "place of". ...

, a suffix in Australian place names * United Provinces (disambiguation) *

University Park, Pennsylvania Penn State University Park, also referred to as University Park, is the main campus of Pennsylvania State University, located in both State College and College Township, both in Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States. The campus post off ...

, United States *

University Park, Texas University Park is a city in Dallas County, Texas, United States, in suburban Dallas. The population was 25,278 at the 2020 census. The city is home to Southern Methodist University. University Park is bordered on the north, east and west by Dal ...

, United States *

Upper Peninsula of Michigan The Upper Peninsula of Michigan—also known as Upper Michigan or colloquially the U.P. or Yoop—is the northern and more elevated of the two major landmasses that make up the U.S. state of Michigan; it is separated from the Lower Peninsula of ...

, United States *

Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh ( ; UP) is a States and union territories of India, state in North India, northern India. With over 241 million inhabitants, it is the List of states and union territories of India by population, most populated state in In ...

, India *

Eup (administrative division) An ''eup'' or ''ŭp'' () is an administrative unit in both North Korea and South Korea similar to the unit of town. In South Korea Along with " myeon", an "eup" is one of the divisions of a county ("gun"), and of some cities ("si") with a pop ...

, also spelled ŭp, an administrative unit in both North Korea and South Korea

Political parties

* National Popular Party (Romania), a Romanian political party, "Uniunea Patrioților" in Romanian *

Patriotic Union (Colombia) The Patriotic Union or UP (in Spanish: ''Unión Patriótica'') is a leftist, Colombian political party, founded by the FARC and the Colombian Communist Party in 1985, as part of the peace negotiations that the guerrillas held with the Conservat ...

, a Colombian political party * Labour United, a Polish political party, "Unia Pracy" in Polish * Unidad Popular, a Chilean coalition of political parties * Unidade Popular, a Brazilian political party *

Union for the Homeland The Union for the Homeland (, UP) is a centre-left political and electoral coalition of Peronist political parties in Argentina. It has been the main opposition coalition since December 2023. The coalition was formed to compete in the 2023 gen ...

, an Argentine political coalition, "Unión por la Patria" in Spanish * United Party (disambiguation), any of several political parties * Unity Party (disambiguation), any of several political parties

Schools

Palacký University Olomouc Palacký University Olomouc () is the oldest university in Moravia and List of universities in the Czech Republic, the second-oldest in the Czech Republic. It was established in 1573 as a public university led by the Jesuit order in Olomouc, whi ...

, Czech Republic * Panamerican University, Mexico, "Universidad Panamericana" in Spanish * Pedagogical University, Mozambique * Umutara Polytechnic, Rwanda *

University of Patras The University of Patras (UPatras; , ''Panepistímio Patrón'', ΠΠ) is a public university in Patras, Greece. It is the third-largest university in Greece with respect to the size of the student body, the staff, and the number of department ...

, Greece *

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (Penn or UPenn) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. One of nine colonial colleges, it was chartered in 1755 through the efforts of f ...

, United States *

University of the Philippines The University of the Philippines (UP; ) is a Higher education in the Philippines#State universities and colleges, state university system in the Philippines. It is the country's national university, as mandated by List of Philippine laws, Re ...

, national university system of the Philippines *

University of Phoenix University of Phoenix (UoPX) is a Private university, private For-profit higher education in the United States, for-profit university headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. Founded in 1976, the university confers certificates and degrees at the Ac ...

, United States *

University of Poitiers The University of Poitiers (UP; , ) is a public university located in Poitiers, France. It is a member of the Coimbra Group. It is multidisciplinary and contributes to making Poitiers the city with the highest student/inhabitant ratio in France ...

, France *

University of Portland The University of Portland (UP) is a private Catholic university in Portland, Oregon, United States. It was founded in 1901 and is affiliated with the Congregation of Holy Cross, which also founded UP's sister school, the University of Notre Da ...

, United States *

University of Porto The University of Porto (''Universidade do Porto'') is a Portuguese public research university located in Porto, and founded on 22 March 1911. It is the second largest Portuguese university by number of enrolled students, after the University ...

, Portugal *

University of Potsdam The University of Potsdam is a public university in Potsdam, capital of the state of Brandenburg, northeastern Germany. The university is mainly situated across three campuses in the city. Some faculty buildings are part of the New Palace o ...

, Germany *

University of Pretoria The University of Pretoria (, ) is a multi-campus public university, public research university in Pretoria, the administrative and ''de facto'' capital of South Africa. The university was established in 1908 as the Pretoria campus of the Johan ...

, South Africa

Science, technology, and mathematics

Uncertainty principle The uncertainty principle, also known as Heisenberg's indeterminacy principle, is a fundamental concept in quantum mechanics. It states that there is a limit to the precision with which certain pairs of physical properties, such as position a ...

, a fundamental limit to measurement precision * Unified Process, a software development process framework *

Unrotated projectile The Unrotated Projectile (UP) was a British anti-aircraft and ground-bombardment rocket of the Second World War. The original 7-inch version was developed for the Royal Navy by Alwyn Crow of the Projectile Development Establishment of the Mini ...

, an anti-aircraft weapon *

UP (complexity) In complexity theory, UP (unambiguous non-deterministic polynomial-time) is the complexity class of decision problems solvable in polynomial time on an unambiguous Turing machine with at most one accepting path for each input. UP contains P and ...

* Up (game theory) *

Up quark The up quark or u quark (symbol: u) is the lightest of all quarks, a type of elementary particle, and a significant constituent of matter. It, along with the down quark, forms the neutrons (one up quark, two down quarks) and protons (two up quark ...

, in physics *

Upper Paleolithic The Upper Paleolithic (or Upper Palaeolithic) is the third and last subdivision of the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age. Very broadly, it dates to between 50,000 and 12,000 years ago (the beginning of the Holocene), according to some theories ...

, a stone age

Other uses

Volkswagen Up The Volkswagen Up (stylized as Volkswagen up!) is a city car produced by the Volkswagen Group from 2011 to 2023. It was unveiled at the International Motor Show Germany#2011, 2011 International Motor Show Germany (IAA). Production of the Up star ...

, an automobile * Up, a cocktail term * Up, a railroad direction * Up, a term in sports designating one's turn, similar to "

at bat In baseball, an at bat (AB) or time at bat is a batter's turn batting against a pitcher. An at bat is different from a plate appearance. A batter is credited with a plate appearance regardless of what happens upon completion of his turn at bat, ...

" in baseball * Underpowered (game balance) * Unitary patent, also known as "European patent with unitary effect", a type of European patent

Arts and entertainment

Film

Music

Bands

Albums

Songs

Television

Other arts and entertainment

Businesses

Places

Political parties

Schools

Science, technology, and mathematics

Other uses

See also