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Drag or The Drag may refer to:
Places
Drag, Norway , a village in Tysfjord municipality, Nordland, Norway
Drág , the Hungarian name for
Dragu Commune in Sălaj County, Romania
Drag (Austin, Texas) , the portion of Guadalupe Street adjacent to the University of Texas at Austin
Science and technology
Drag (physics) , the force which resists motion of an object through a fluid
Aerodynamic drag , the aerodynamic force which resists motion of an aircraft or other object through the air
Drag parachute , a parachute to reduce the speed of vehicles
Park drag , a type of carriage
Drag , older name for
grapnel anchor
Police drag , a small dredge used to recover objects or bodies lost in shallow water
Drag harrow , in agriculture, a heavy type of harrow used to break up soil
Drag system , a mechanical means of applying variable pressure to a fishing rod reel in order to act as a friction brake
Drag and drop , a computer input gesture
Arts and entertainment
Performance
Drag (entertainment) , a form of exaggerated femininity or masculinity
Drag: Combing Through the Big Wigs of Show Business , a history book of drag queens by
Frank DeCaro
Film and theatre
Music
To drag, in music, to play slower than the indicated
tempo
Drag (percussion) , in drumming, one of the 26 rudiments, or basic patterns used in rudimental drumming
Artists
Genres
Recordings
Sport
Other uses
A deep
inhalation of a cigarette, in slang
Dragging death , a death caused by someone being dragged behind or underneath a moving vehicle or animal.
See also
Topics referred to by the same term