Jig (disambiguation)

A jig is a type of folk dance.

Jig may also refer to:

Manufacturing

 * Jig (tool), a device/frame used to control position or motion
 * Jigs, various methods of gravity separation in a coal preparation plant

Sports

 * Jig, a fishing lure used in the jigging method of fishing (angling)
 * "Jig", a nickname of Scottish footballer Lee McCulloch (born 1978)
 * Jig, an unwanted anxious/restless on the spot trotting motion of a horse

Entertainment

 * Jig (film), a 2011 British documentary
 * Jigs (band), a Swedish band
 * Jig, a variant of the children's card game snip snap snorem
 * Jay Is Games (J.I.G.), a game review website
 * Jig, the goblin protagonist of several fantasy novels by Jim C. Hines
 * Jig! was the name of a strategy game for the Newton MessagePad published by Dubl-Click Software in 1991.

Slang

 * Jig or Jigging, a verb for the act of truancy
 * The Jig is up. Meaning a dishonest action that has been uncovered and will not be continued

Other uses

 * Gigue (French), or jig in English, a fast dance movement from the Baroque Suite
 * George Cram Cook or Jig Cook (1873-1924), American theatre producer, director, playwright, novelist and poet
 * Hurricane Jig (1951), in the Atlantic Ocean
 * Jig, one of the sectors of Gold Beach during the World War II Normandy landings
 * Jig, the phonetic for the letter J in the Joint Army/Navy Phonetic Alphabet
 * jig, ISO 639-3 code for the Jingulu language of Australia