Stud
Stud could mean:
- Stud (animal) - a male animal employed for breeding
- By analogy, a virile human male (see gender role)
- A small ornamental button mounted on a short post for insertion through an eyelet
- Screw - a threaded fastener
- The interlocking circular piece of a LEGO brick
- Snowmobile Stud - a metal threaded piece installed in a snowmobile rubber track
- Stud earring for pierced ears
- Cleat - a protrusion on the bottom of a shoe to provide extra grip
- Shoe studs - a traction device used on the bottom of horse shoes
- Traction devices inserted in the tread of automobile winter tires
- Wall stud - a vertical member within a light-frame construction wall
- Stud poker - a kind of card game:
- Studs (game show) - a dating show from the early 1990s
- Stud contact system, an obsolete Ground-level power supply system for tramways