Transportation

• A powerful aircraft used to tow gliders

• A common nickname for pushback tow tractors used at airports

• Towboat

Geography

• Tuğ, Azerbaijan, a village

• Tug Fork, a tributary of the Big Sandy River in the United States

As a nickname

• Tug Arundel (1862–1912), American Major League Baseball catcher

• Tug Hulett (born 1983), American baseball player

• Tug McGraw (1944-2004), Major League Baseball pitcher

• Tug Thompson (1856-1938), Major League Baseball player

• Tug Wilson (disambiguation), various people

• Tug Yourgrau, American playwright and TV producer

• Tug O'Neale, fictional character in the Australian soap opera Far and Away

Arts and entertainment

• Tug (film), a 2013 film

• Tugs (TV series), a British children's TV series

• Tug Records, a record label

• Tug, a handjob in pornography

TUG

• TÜBİTAK National Observatory (Turkish: TÜBİTAK Ulusal Gozlemevi), an astronomical observatory in southern Turkey

• TeX Users Group

• Timed Up and Go test, a simple test to assess a person's physical mobility

• The Ultimate Group, a record label and management company

• Technical University of Gdańsk, former name of Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland

Other uses

• Tug (banner), a symbol of power in Mongol and Turkish states

• Tacoma Tugs, former name of minor league baseball team the Tacoma Rainiers

• ISO 639 code for the Tunia language of Chad

• nickname for King's Scholars at Eton College

• A slang term for male masturbation