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Ring most broadly refers to a hollow circular shape or to a high-pitched sound. It thus may refer to:
- Ring (jewellery), a circular, decorative or symbolic ornament worn on fingers, toes, arm or neck.
Ring may also refer to:
Sounds
Places
- Ring, County Waterford, a village in Ireland
- Ring, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community in USA
People
- Ring (surname)
- Ring of Sweden, a semi-legendary Swedish king
Arts, entertainment, and media
Films
(Chronological)
- The Ring (1927 film), a 1927 silent sports film directed by Alfred Hitchcock
- Ring (film), a 1998 horror film by Hideo Nakata
- The Ring (2002 film), a 2002 horror film by Gore Verbinski
- The Ring Two, a 2005 sequel to the 2002 horror film The Ring
- Rings (2005 film), a 2005 horror short film by Jonathan Liebesman
- Rings (2017 film), the second sequel to the 2002 horror film The Ring, and overall 3rd movie in series
Gaming
- Ring (video game), or Ring: The Legend of the Nibelungen, a point-and-click adventure video game
- Rings (Sonic the Hedgehog), a gameplay device
Literature
Techniques
- Chiastic structure, or chiastic pattern, a literary technique in narrative motifs and other textual passages, an alternate name includes ring structure
Comics
Works
- Ring (Stephen Baxter novel), a 1994 science fiction novel
- Ring (Suzuki novel), a 1991 Japanese horror novel by Koji Suzuki
Music
Instrument
Groups
- Ring (band), a 1980s British band
Operas
- "The Ring", Der Ring des Nibelungen, four operas by Richard Wagner
Albums
- Ring (Gary Burton album), 1974
- Ring (The Connells album), 1993
- Ring (Miliyah Kato album), 2009
Songs
- "Ring" (B'z song), 2000
- "Ring" (Cardi B song), 2018
- "Rings" (song), a 1971 song by Tompall & the Glaser Brothers
- "Ring Ring" (song), Abba song
Science and technology
Chemistry
- Ring (chemistry), a cyclic molecule
- RING finger domain, a protein structural domain
Computing
- Ring (computer security), a layer of protection in computer systems
- Ring (data structure), also known as ring buffer or circular buffer
- Ring (programming language), a dynamic programming language
- Ring (software), VOIP software
- Ring network, a network topology
Mathematics
- Ring (mathematics), an algebraic structure
- Ring (geometric), or Annulus (mathematics), a circular shape
- Prime ring
- Ring of sets
- Ring theory, an algebraic theory on the study of rings
- Torus, a doughnut shape
Other uses in science and technology
- Annulus (mycology), also called a ring or an annulus
- Bird ringing, in biology, identification rings put on birds' legs
- Coffee ring or coffee ring effect
- Piston ring
- Ring system, in astronomy, matter orbiting a planet or other stellar body
Sports
- Ring (boxing)
- Ring (wrestling)
- Rings (gymnastics), a gymnastics apparatus and its associated event
- Fighting Network Rings, a martial arts organization also known as RINGS
- Juggling rings
Brands and enterprises
- Ring (company), a home security company owned by Amazon, which makes the RRing Video Doorbell (a product marketed as simply Ring)
- Ring (diacritic), as in "Åmål"
- Auction ring, a bidding practice, also known as collusion, used in auctions
- Bathtub ring, the circle of dirt left behind by receding dirty bathwater
- Brass ring
- Cock ring
- Crime ring
- Ring road, a type of highway encircling a town or city
- Rings, local clubs of the International Brotherhood of Magicians
See also
- Category:Rings
- All pages beginning with ring
- All pages with a title containing ring
- The Ring (disambiguation)
- Ring structure (disambiguation)
- Ring of Honor (disambiguation)
- Annulus (disambiguation)
- Ringe (disambiguation)
- Ringo (disambiguation)
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