Drag

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
  • Drag coefficient
• Drag and drop, a computer input gesture
• 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
• Police drag, a small dredge used to recover objects or bodies lost in shallow water
• Drag, older name for grapnel anchor

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

• The Drag (play), a Mae West play
• Drag (1929 film), a drama film directed by Frank Lloyd
• Drag (2026 film), an upcoming American comedy horror thriller film
• The Drag (film), a 1966 Canadian animated short

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

• Drag (band), an Australian band

Genres

• Witch house (genre), a subgenre of dark electronic music also known as drag
• Slow drag (dance), a genre of blues dancing

Recordings

• Drag (k.d. lang album), a 1997 album by k.d. lang
• Drag (Red Aunts album), an album by the Red Aunts
• "Drag", a song by King Adora released on the single "Drag/9" Of Pure Malice"
• "The Drag", a song by Ty Segall from the album Ty Segall
• "Drag", a song by Hole released on the single "Malibu"
• "Drag", a song by Lagwagon from the album Hang
• "Drag", a song by Ronnie Linares and The Del-Aires
• "Drag", a song by Steve Wynn
• "Drag", a single by Day Wave
• "Drag", a song by Grey Daze

Sport

• Drag (route), in American football
• Drag racing, a form of automobile racing
• Drag suit, a type of training swimwear.
• Drag hunting, a form of hunting with hounds

Other uses

• Drag (carriage), a type of horse-drawn coach
• 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

• Drag strip (disambiguation)