title: Rub
text: # Rub
  
  Rubbing (friction) is moving an object in contact with another object using pressure and friction
  
  Rub, RUB or rubbing may also refer to:
  
  ## Organisations
  
  * Ruhr-Universität Bochum
  * Royal University of Bhutan, the national university system of Bhutan
  
  ## Food
  
  * Spice rub, in cooking
  * Rub (syrup), a kind of syrup extracted from dates
  
  ## Arts and entertainment
  
  * Rub (album), by Peaches
  * Rubbing (art), a method of recording and reproducing the texture of a surface
  * The Rub, an English rock band
  * "Rubbin'", a song by Choclair from his album Ice Cold
  
  ## People
  
  * Kurt Rub (born 1946), Swiss former racing cyclist
  * Timothy Rub (born 1952), American museum director and art historian
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Russian ruble (ISO 4217 currency code), the currency of the Russian Federation
  * Christian Rub (1886–1956), character actor from Germany
  * Kuliak languages, in Uganda
  * Liniment, a medicated topical preparation for application to the skin, sometimes heat rubs
  * Massage, to work and act on the body with pressure
  * Rub (professional wrestling), a wrestling technique
  