Gear (disambiguation)
A gear is a toothed wheel designed to transmit torque to another gear or toothed component.
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Gear or gears may also refer to:
Computing and technology
- Gear, a selected combination of gears to achieve a particular gear ratio, for example with motor vehicle transmission
- Gear, an image of a gear often symbolizes computer configuration (also known as settings, options, or preferences)
- Gears (software) (formerly Google Gears), a browser plug-in from Google that enables development of off-line browser applications
- Landing gear of an aircraft, referred to as gear in the aviation industry
- Samsung Gear, a line of Samsung smartwatches
Arts, entertainment, and media
Fictional characters
- Gear (Static Shock), a DCAU superhero
- Gears (G.I. Joe), a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe
- Gears (Transformers), a character in the Transformers universe
Games
- Geared (video game), an iOS game
- Gears of War, a third-person shooter video game series
- Guilty Gear, a fighting video game series
- Heavy Gear, a role-playing game series
- Metal Gear, a stealth video game series
- Xenogears, a role-playing video game
- Gear, another term for equipment
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
- Gears (album), an album by Johnny Hammond
- Gear (Image Comics), written by Doug Tennapel and later made into a TV show called Catscratch
- Gear (magazine), an international men's magazine
- GEAR (show), a long-run theatre show based in Kyoto, Japan.
- Gear (Village Voice), a 1969 character sketch in The Village Voice
Sports
- Camping gear, supplies and apparel needed for camping
- Hiking gear, supplies and apparel needed for camping
Other uses
- Gear (name), including a list of people with the name
- GEAR (Growth, Employment and Redistribution), a neo-liberal strategy of the South-African Government from 1996 to 2000
- Gear, a UK slang for illegal narcotics
- GEAR (Gender Equality Architecture Reform), Campaign, a campaign to create the UN Women organization
- Geared or gearing, a term used in ship transport to indicate whether or not a vessel has cranes on board
- Music gear, a term for musical instruments and sound reinforcement equipment
- USS Gear (ARS-34), a 1942 U.S. Navy ship
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