Jig (disambiguation)

A jig is a type of folk dance.

Jig may also refer to:

Manufacturing

• Jig (tool), a device/frame used to control position or motion
  • Jig (jewellery), a plate or open frame for holding work and helping to shape jewelry components
• Jigs, various methods of gravity separation in a coal preparation plant

Sports

• Jig, a fishing lure used in the jigging method of fishing (angling)
• "Jig", a nickname of Scottish footballer Lee McCulloch (born 1978)
• Jig, an unwanted anxious/restless on the spot trotting motion of a horse

Entertainment

• Jig (film), a 2011 British documentary
• Jigs (band), a Swedish band
• Jig, a variant of the children's card game snip snap snorem
• Jay Is Games (J.I.G.), a game review website
• Jig, the goblin protagonist of several fantasy novels by Jim C. Hines
• Jig! was the name of a strategy game for the Newton MessagePad published by Dubl-Click Software in 1991.

Slang

• Jig or Jigging, a verb for the act of truancy
• Jig, an ethnic slur for black people

Other uses

• Gigue (French), or jig in English, a fast dance movement from the Baroque Suite
• George Cram Cook or Jig Cook (1873-1924), American theatre producer, director, playwright, novelist and poet
• Hurricane Jig (1951), in the Atlantic Ocean
• Jig, one of the sectors of Gold Beach during the World War II Normandy landings
• Jig, the phonetic for the letter J in the Joint Army/Navy Phonetic Alphabet
• jig, ISO 639-3 code for the Jingulu language of Australia

See also

• The jig is up (disambiguation)
• Stage jig, 'dramatic' or 'farce' jig: a short, comic sung-drama featuring dance; a popular afterpiece in the playhouses of 16th and 17th century England, or performed by amateurs and semi-professional performers in the localities
• James D. Ramage (1916-2012), American naval aviator and rear admiral nicknamed "Jig Dog"