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Gig or GIG may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• Gig (music), a live performance by a musician or other performer
• Gig (Circle Jerks album) (1992)
• Gig (Northern Pikes album) (1993)
• GIG (Hot Wheels AcceleRacers), a character in Hot Wheels AcceleRacers
• GIG, an abbreviation for "GUYS Is Green" in the Japanese television series Ultraman Mebius

Transportation

• Gig (carriage), a two-wheeled sprung cart to be pulled by a horse
• Captain's gig, a boat used as the captain's taxi
• GIG, IATA airport code for Rio de Janeiro–Galeão International Airport, the main airport serving Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• GIG, National Rail station code for Giggleswick railway station, Yorkshire, England

As an acronym

• Georgian Industrial Group, a large holding company in Georgia
• Global Information Grid, a military global information network operated by the United States Department of Defense
• Generalized inverse Gaussian distribution, a distribution in probability theory

People

• Geraldine Gig Gangel (born 1958), Playboy Playmate of the Month for January 1980
• Gig Morton (born 1996), Canadian actor
• Elizabeth Gig Ryan (born 1956), Australian poet
• Gig Young, American actor born Byron Elsworth Barr (1913-1978)

Other uses

• Gig, short for gigabyte, a computer unit of information
• Gig, a multi-pronged spear used in gigging or hunting fish or small game
• Gig, the blade a professional wrestler uses to cut himself
• KGIG-LP ("104.9 The Gig"), an FM radio station licensed to Modesto, California, United States
• GIG, Rio de Janeiro Galeão International Airport

See also

• Cornish pilot gig, a six-oared rowing boat
• Gigg (disambiguation)
• Giggs (disambiguation)

• Disambiguation pages