Elbow (disambiguation)

The elbow is a joint of an arm.

Elbow may also mean one of the following:

Places:

• Elbow, Saskatchewan, a village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan
• Elbow, Texas, an unincorporated community in Howard County, Texas, United States
• Elbow Beach, Bermuda, one of the most popular beaches on the main island of Bermuda
• Elbow Cay, a six-mile long cay in the Abaco Islands of the Bahamas
• Elbow crater, a meteorite crater in Saskatchewan, Canada
• Elbow Falls, a small set of waterfalls along the Elbow River in Kananaskis Country, Alberta
• Elbow Lake, Becker County, Minnesota, a census-designated place in Becker and Clearwater counties in the U.S. state of Minnesota
• Elbow Lake, Grant County, Minnesota, a city in and the county seat of Grant County, Minnesota, United States
• Elbow Lake, Saskatchewan, a hamlet in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan
• Elbow Lake (Alberta), located in the Elbow Pass north of the Highwood pass in Kananaskis Country in Alberta, Canada
• Elbow Lake Township, Grant County, Minnesota, a township in Grant County, Minnesota, United States
• Elbow Park, Calgary, a residential neighbourhood in the south-west quadrant of Calgary, Alberta
• Elbow Pass, the mountain pass between the Highwood and Elbow areas in Kananaskis Country, Alberta, Canada
• Elbow Peak, 1195 m, located at the southernmost bend of Berquist Ridge in the Neptune Range, Pensacola Mountains
• Elbow Pond (Plymouth, Massachusetts), a 16-acre (65,000 m²) pond in the Cedarville section of Plymouth, Massachusetts
• Elbow Range, a mountain range in Clark County, Nevada
• Elbow River, a river located in southern Alberta, Canada
• Elbow River (Minnesota), a river of Minnesota
• Elbow Valley, Alberta, a rural community in southern Alberta, in Rocky View County
• Elbow-Sheep Wildland Provincial Park, a provincial park and wildlife reserve located in the Kananaskis Country in south-western Alberta, Canada

People:

• Peter Elbow, currently a Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst
• Władysław I the Elbow-high or Elbow-high (1261–1333), a King of Poland

Metaphors:

• Elbow grease, an idiom for working hard at manual labour
• Fiddler's Elbow
• Golfer's elbow
• Nursemaid's elbow, a dislocation of the elbow
• Tennis elbow, a condition where the outer part of the elbow becomes sore and tender

Other:

• Elbow (band), an alternative rock band from England
• Elbow (strike), an attack using the elbow
• Elbow, a pipe fitting installed between two lengths of pipe or tube to allow a change of direction
• Street elbow, a variant of the elbow pipe fitting
• A character in William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure
• The ends slice of a loaf of bread, nicknamed the "heel" or "elbow"
• The Elbow Criterion, a technique to find optimal number of clusters for clustering algorithms
• Elbow Mountain (Maryland), a summit of Savage Mountain
• Elbow (knot), a formation of rope
• Elbow Beach Changing Faces - The Best Of... (2001), the third solo album by the British singer Louise
• Elbow bump, an informal greeting where two people touch, or tap, elbows
• Elbow engine, a piston-based engine typically fed by steam or compressed air to drive a flywheel and/or mechanical load