Puck may refer to:

Objects

Hockey puck A hockey puck is either an open or closed disk used in a variety of sports and games. There are designs made for use on an ice surface, such as in ice hockey, and others for the different variants of floor hockey which includes the wheeled skat ...

, either an open or closed disk used in

ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an Ice rink, ice skating rink with Ice hockey rink, lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hockey, two o ...

and

floor hockey Floor hockey is a broad term for several indoor floor game codes which involve two teams using a stick and type of ball or disk. Disks are either open or closed but both designs are usually referred to as "pucks". These games are played either o ...

serving the same function a ball does in ball games. * Floor hockey puck, a disk, either open or closed, made from synthetic materials and designed for use on dry floors serving the same function a ball does in ball games * Puck, a

graphics tablet A graphics tablet (also known as a digitizer, digital graphic tablet, pen tablet, drawing tablet, external drawing pad or digital art board) is a computer input device that enables a user to hand-draw images, animations and graphics, with a spec ...

accessory * Puck, the coffee grounds inside an espresso machine portafilter * Puck, an injection-molded carrier that stabilizes products on a

conveyor A conveyor system is a common piece of mechanical handling equipment that moves materials from one location to another. Conveyors are especially useful in applications involving the transport of heavy or bulky materials. Conveyor systems allow ...

line *

Shaving soap Shaving soap is a hard soap that is used to produce lather with a shaving brush. The lather it produces is used to coat the face during shaving, softening the hair in preparation for shaving. While shaving soap produces plenty of dense and long- ...

, typically refers to a hard soap that is whipped into a lather using a shaving brush * Puck or sometimes "puck adapter" an adapter put in the large hole of a 45 rpm single so that it could be played on the thinner type of spindle.

Characters

Puck (folklore) In English folklore, Puck (), sometimes known as Robin Goodfellow, is a domestic and nature sprite, demon, or fairy. Origins and comparative folklore Etymology The etymology of ''puck'' is uncertain. The modern English word is attested alr ...

, a trickster character of folk tales * Puck (''A Midsummer Night's Dream''), a character from Shakespeare's ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' ** Puck, from the '' Faeries'' CBS TV special ** Puck, from the '' Gargoyles'' animated series ** Puck, the eponymous character from Rudyard Kipling's book '' Puck of Pook's Hill'' and its sequel ** Puck, from '' The Sandman'' series of comic books ** Puck, from '' The Sisters Grimm'' series of novels * Puck (Marvel Comics), the codename of two Marvel characters * Puck (''Glee''), from the musical comedy-drama ''Glee'' * Puck (''Love Birds''), youngest penguin from the musical ''Love Birds'' *

Peter Puck Peter Puck is a hockey puck-shaped cartoon character. The puck, whose animated adventures appeared on both '' NBC's Hockey Game of the Week'' and CBC's ''Hockey Night in Canada'' during the 1970s, explained ice hockey rules, equipment and the spor ...

, a hockey-puck-shaped cartoon character * Puck, a character from the ''Berserk'' manga and anime series * Puck (''Re:Zero''), a character in the light novel series ''Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World'' * Puck, a non-playable character in the video game, ''

Final Fantasy IX is a 2000 role-playing video game developed and published by Square for the PlayStation video game console. It is the ninth game in the main ''Final Fantasy'' series. The plot focuses on a war between nations in a medieval fantasy world called ...

'' * Puck, a playable character in the video game, ''

Dota 2 ''Dota 2'' is a 2013 multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) video game by Valve. The game is a sequel to '' Defense of the Ancients'' (''DotA''), a community-created mod for Blizzard Entertainment's '' Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos.'' ''Dota ...

'' * Baron Puck, in the 1867 opéra bouffe ''

La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein ''La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein'' (''The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein'') is an opéra bouffe (a form of operetta), in three acts and four tableaux by Jacques Offenbach to an original French libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy. The ...

Literature

* ''Puck'' (magazine), an 1871–1918 humor publication * ''Puck'' (literary magazine), a 1990s publication * ''Puck'', a novel by

Ouida Ouida (; 1 January 1839 – 25 January 1908) was the pseudonym of the English novelist Maria Louise Ramé (although she preferred to be known as Marie Louise de la Ramée). During her career, Ouida wrote more than 40 novels, as well as s ...

Places

Puck County __NOTOC__ Puck County ( pl, powiat pucki, csb, pùcczi pòwiat) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Pomeranian Voivodeship, northern Poland, on the Baltic coast. The ''powiat'' of this name existed in the his ...

, Poland **

Puck, Poland Puck ( csb, Pùckò, Pùck, Pëck, formerly german: Putzig) is a town in northern Poland with 11,350 inhabitants. It is in Gdańsk Pomerania on the south coast of the Baltic Sea ( Bay of Puck) and part of Kashubia with many Kashubian speakers i ...

, a town and the county seat ** Gmina Puck, a ''gmina'' or administrative division **

Puck railway station Puck railway station is a railway station serving the town of Puck, in the Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland. The station opened on 15 December 1898 and is located on the Reda–Hel railway. The train services are operated by Przewozy Regionalne ...

Puck (moon) Puck is an inner moon of Uranus. It was discovered in December 1985 by the ''Voyager 2'' spacecraft. The name ''Puck'' follows the convention of naming Uranus's moons after characters from Shakespeare. The orbit of Puck lies between the rings ...

, a moon of Uranus *

Bay of Puck The Bay of Puck or Puck Bay (; ; german: Putziger Wiek), is a shallow western branch of the Bay of Gdańsk in the southern Baltic Sea, off the shores of Gdańsk Pomerania, Poland. It is separated from the open sea by the Hel Peninsula. The bay h ...

, in the Baltic Sea

Other uses

Puck (name) Notable people named Puck include: Given name * Puck de Leeuw (1953–2002), Dutch director * Puck Dupp (born 1967), ring name for American wrestler Marty Garner * Puck Moonen (born 1996), Dutch cyclist riding for Lotto–Soudal Ladies * Puck Piet ...

, including a list of people with the name * ''Puck'' (opera), an opéra-féerique which premiered in 1949 * Puck Building, a Manhattan landmark *

Puck Fair The Puck Fair (Irish: ''Aonach an Phoic'', meaning "Fair of the He-Goat", 'poc' being the Irish for a male goat) is one of Ireland's oldest fairs. It takes place annually from 10–12 August in Killorglin, County Kerry. Description Every ye ...

, an Irish festival * Puck App, a mobile application that allows hockey players to quickly find and rent a hockey goalie * Puck puzzle, a combination puzzle invented in 1980 by Hungarian physicist András Végh * Puck Man, the original name for the arcade game

Pac-Man originally called ''Puck Man'' in Japan, is a 1980 maze video game, maze action game, action video game developed and released by Namco for Arcade game, arcades. In North America, the game was released by Midway Manufacturing as part of its l ...

* ''Puck'' (fish), a genus of dreamer deep-water fish * Puck (media company), American digital media company {{disambiguation, geo