An ox is an adult male bovine. Ox or OX may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Music

Ox (band) Ox was a Canadian alternative country band active in the 2000s and 2010s, based initially in Vancouver, British Columbia,Mike Landry"Ox American Lo Fi" '' The Coast'', December 6, 2007. and later Sudbury, Ontario.Wendy Bird"Musician now strumming ...

, a Canadian alternative country band * Ox (musician), a Finnish musician * ''Ox'' (album), by American hardcore band Coalesce * "The Ox" (instrumental), a 1965 rock instrumental by The Who * ''

Ox-Fanzine ''Ox-Fanzine'' is a monthly punk zine from Solingen, Germany, founded in 1988. It is edited by Joachim Hiller and has had many contributors. Besides its focus on punk subculture, it also covers similar genres, reviews of comics, books and films, ...

'', a German

punk zine A punk zine (or punkzine) is a zine related to the punk subculture and hardcore punk music genre. Often primitively or casually produced, they feature punk literature, such as social commentary, punk poetry, news, gossip, music reviews and ar ...

Other media

* ''The Ox'' (film), a 1991 Swedish film *

Doctor Ox ''Doctor Ox'' () is a collection of short stories by Jules Verne Jules Gabriel Verne (;''Longman Pronunciation Dictionary''. ; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet and playwright. His collaboration with the publ ...

, a fictional doctor and scientist created by Jules Verne in 1872 *

Ox (comics) The Enforcers are a team of supervillains appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, usually as adversaries of the superheroes Spider-Man and Daredevil. The original Enforcers consisted of Montana (Jackson Brice), the Ox (Raymo ...

, a villain in the Marvel Comics universe * , a creature from the eponymous book in the

Of Man and Manta Of Man and Manta is a trilogy of science fiction novels written by Piers Anthony. It consists of the three books: ''Omnivore'' (1968), ''Orn'' (1970), and ' (1975). ''Omnivore'' has as its frame the investigation of the deaths of eighteen trav ...

trilogy by Piers Anthony * "O X" (''Squid Game''), 2024 episode of ''Squid Game''

Computing

* Ox programming language *

Open-Xchange Open-Xchange is an open source web-based office productivity software suite. History Founded in 2005 by Rafael Laguna and Frank Hoberg, the software was released in December of the same year, and started as a Linux-based email and groupware prog ...

, a "collaboration software" suite and the company that sponsors it * the oX framework for

OBIX oBIX (for Open Building Information Exchange) is a standard for RESTful Web Services-based interfaces to building control systems. oBIX is about reading and writing data over a network of devices using XML and URIs, within a framework specifical ...

People

* Ox (nickname), a list of people nicknamed "Ox" or "the Ox"

Places

Ox Mountains The Ox Mountains or Slieve Gamph (, 'storm mountains') are a mountain range in County Sligo on the west coast of Ireland Ireland (, ; ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Eu ...

, County Sligo, Ireland * OX postcode area, covering Oxford, UK *

The Oxford Bar The Oxford Bar is a public house situated on Young Street, in the New Town of Edinburgh, Scotland. The pub is chiefly notable for having been featured in Sir Ian Rankin's Inspector Rebus series of novels. The Oxford Bar, or The Ox, is John Rebus ...

, a pub on Edinburgh's Young Street which features in Ian Rankin's Inspector Rebus novels * Ox (Belfast restaurant), a restaurant in Belfast, Northern Ireland * Ox (Portland restaurant), a restaurant in Portland, Oregon, U.S.

Transport

* OX, a version of the

Bedford OY The Bedford OY is an army lorry (truck) built by Bedford Vehicles, Bedford for the British Armed Forces and introduced in 1939. It was based on Bedford's O-series commercial vehicles with a modified front end and single rear tyres. It was designe ...

British Army lorry, the latter introduced in 1939 * OX, a prototype vehicle developed by Global Vehicle Trust *

Orient Thai Airlines Orient Thai Airlines Co., Ltd. was an airline with its head office in Khlong Toei district, Khlong Toei, Bangkok, Thailand. It operated charter and scheduled services in Southeast Asia and was based at Don Mueang International Airport. On 9 Octob ...

(IATA code OX), an airline with its head office in Khlong Toei, Bangkok, Thailand * TruckMasters OX, a pickup truck sold in Finland as a rebadged Toyota Hilux

Other uses

Ox (zodiac) The Ox ( 牛) is the second of the 12-year periodic sequence (cycle) of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar, and also appears in related calendar systems. The Chinese term translated here as '' ox'' is ...

, one of the 12 signs of the Chinese zodiac *

Ox (Chinese constellation) The Ox mansion (牛宿, pinyin: Niú Xiù) is one of the Twenty-eight mansions of the Chinese constellations. It is one of the northern mansions of the Black Tortoise. The primary asterism of this mansion is centered on the tail of the constell ...

, one of the 28 mansions of the Chinese constellations *

Oxalate Oxalate (systematic IUPAC name: ethanedioate) is an anion with the chemical formula . This dianion is colorless. It occurs naturally, including in some foods. It forms a variety of salts, for example sodium oxalate (), and several esters such as ...

, in chemistry sometimes abbreviated as ox when it forms coordination compounds *

Sendai Television Sendai Television Inc. (株式会社仙台放送, OX), callsign JOOX-DTV (channel 8) is a Japanese television station based in Sendai that serves as the affiliate of the Fuji News Network (FNN) and Fuji Network System (FNS) for the Miyagi Prefe ...

, a Japanese commercial broadcaster