Bow often refers to: *

Bow and arrow The bow and arrow is a ranged weapon system consisting of an elasticity (physics), elastic launching device (bow) and long-shafted projectiles (arrows). Humans used bows and arrows for hunting and aggression long before recorded history, and the ...

, a weapon * Bowing, bending the upper body as a social gesture * An ornamental knot made of

ribbon A ribbon or riband is a thin band of material, typically cloth but also plastic or sometimes metal, used primarily as decorative binding and tying. Cloth ribbons are made of natural materials such as silk, cotton, and jute and of synthetic mater ...

Bow may also refer to: * Bow (watercraft), the foremost part of a ship or boat *

Bow (position) In rowing, the bow (or bowman or bowperson) is the rower seated closest to the bow of the boat, which is the forward part of the boat. The other end of the boat is called the stern, and the rower seated there is called the stroke. In a bow-coxed ...

, the rower seated in the bow of a racing shell

Knots

* Bow knot, a shoelace knot or a rosette *

Bow tie The bow tie is a type of necktie. A modern bow tie is tied using a common shoelace knot, which is also called the bow knot for that reason. It consists of a ribbon of fabric tied around the collar of a shirt in a symmetrical manner so that ...

, a type of necktie *

Pussy bow A lavallière, also called a pussycat bow or pussybow, is a style of neckwear worn with women's and girls' blouses and bodices. It is a bow tied at the neck, which has been likened to those sometimes put on "pussy cats". History While bows at th ...

, a style of neckwear

Music

Bow (music) In music, a bow is a tensioned stick which has hair (usually horse-tail hair) coated in rosin (to facilitate friction) affixed to it. It is moved across some part (generally some type of strings) of a musical instrument to cause vibration, whic ...

, used to play a stringed instrument * Musical bow, a musical instrument resembling an archer's bow * EBow, electronic device for playing the electric guitar * Bows (band), a band from the UK

Porcelain

Bow porcelain factory The Bow porcelain factory (active c. 1747–64 and closed in 1776) was an emulative rival of the Chelsea porcelain factory in the manufacture of early soft-paste porcelain in Great Britain. The two London factories were the first in England. ...

Places

England

* Bow, Devon, a village in mid Devon * Bow, a hamlet in the parish of Ashprington in South Devon *

Bow, London Bow () is an area of East London within the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is primarily a built-up and mostly residential area and is east of Charing Cross. It was in the traditional county of Middlesex but became part of the County o ...

, a district * Bow, Oxfordshire, a hamlet

United States

Bow, Kentucky Bow is an unincorporated area, unincorporated community in Cumberland County, Kentucky, Cumberland County, Kentucky, United States. It lies along Kentucky Route 90, Route 90 southeast of the city of Burkesville, Kentucky, Burkesville, the county ...

* Bow, New Hampshire * Bow, Washington

Canada

* The Bow (skyscraper), Calgary, Alberta *

Bow River The Bow River is a river in Alberta, Canada. It begins within the Canadian Rocky Mountains and winds through the Alberta foothills onto the prairies, where it meets the Oldman River, the two then forming the South Saskatchewan River. These ...

, Alberta

Other

* Bow (name), including a list of people with the surname or given name * Bow and warp of semiconductor wafers and substrates * Rema language (ISO-639: bow), Papuan language spoken in New Guinea