Cow most commonly refers to adult female cattle, and colloquially used to refer to cattle in general.

Cow, cows or COW may also refer to:

Science and technology

• Cow, an adult female of several animals

• AT2018cow, a large astronomical explosion also known as "The Cow"

• Distillation cow, a piece of glassware that allows fractions to be collected without breaking vacuum

• Cell on wheels, a means of providing temporary mobile phone network coverage

• Copy-on-write, in computing

Literature

• Al-Baqara, the second and longest sura of the Qur'an, usually translated as "The Cow"

• Cows, a 1998 novel by Matthew Stokoe

• Cow, the English translation of Beat Sterchi's novel Blösch

• "Cows!", a children's story from the Railway Series book Edward the Blue Engine by the Reverend Wilbert Awdry

• "Cows", a poem from The Wiggles' album Big Red Car

Film and television film television

• The Cow (1969 film), an Iranian film

• The Cow (1989 film), a Soviet animated short

• Cow (2009 film), a Chinese film

• Cow (2021 film), a British documentary film

• Cow (public service announcement), an anti texting while driving public service announcement

• Cows (TV series), a pilot and cancelled television sitcom produced by Eddie Izzard for Channel 4 in 1997

• Cow, a character in the animated series Cow and Chicken

• Computer Originated World, referring to the globe ID the BBC1 TV network used from 1985 to 1991

• "Cows", an episode from Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom

Music

• Cows (band), a noise rock band from Minneapolis

• Cow (demo), a 1987 EP by Inspiral Carpets

• COW / Chill Out, World!, 2016 album by The Orb

Other uses

• The Cows (painting), a painting by Vincent van Gogh

• Cerritos On Wheels, municipal bus service operated by the City of Cerritos, California, United States

• College of Wooster, liberal arts college in Wooster, Ohio, United States

• Cow Hell Swamp, Georgia, United States

• Crude oil washing

• Cows (ice cream), a Canadian ice cream brand

• Cowdenbeath railway station, Scotland, National Rail station code

• Cow, part of a cow–calf railroad locomotive set

• COWS, a mnemonic for Cold Opposite, Warm Same in the caloric reflex test

• Cow (Mario), also known as a Moo Moo, a species and playable driver in the Mario Kart series

See also

• Vacas (English: Cows), a 1991 Spanish film

• Kráva (English: The Cow), a 1994 Czech film by Karel Kachyňa

• Sacred cow (disambiguation)

• Cow Run (disambiguation)

• Cowes

• Kow (disambiguation)