• Rushes, grass-like plants in the Juncaceae family
• Sweet rush, Acorus calamus, an aromatic grass-like plant unrelated to the Juncaceae
• Rush (psychology), an acute transcendent state of euphoria

United States

• Rush, Colorado
• Rush, Kentucky
• Rush, New York
• Rush City, Minnesota
• Rush County, Indiana
• Rush County, Kansas
• Rush Township (disambiguation), various places
• Rush Historic District, a zinc mining region in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas
• Rush Valley, Utah
• Rush Lake (disambiguation), various lakes
• Rush Creek (Marin County, California), a stream
• Rush Creek (Mono County, California), on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada, running into Mono Lake
• Rush Creek (Kishwaukee River tributary), Illinois
• Rush Street (Chicago), Illinois

Elsewhere

• Rush, Dublin, a small seaside town in Fingal, Ireland
• Rush Glacier in Brabant Island, Antarctica
• Rush Peak in the Karakoram range, Pakistan

• Rushes or dailies, the first print made of a day's filming
• Rush (1983 film), a science fiction film directed by Anthony Richmond
• Rush (1991 film), a crime film directed by Lili Fini Zanuck
• Rush (2012 film), a Bollywood thriller film directed by Shamin Desai
• Rush (2013 film), a film about Formula 1 directed by Ron Howard
• Rush (1970s TV series), an Australian historical drama
• Rush (2008 TV series), an Australian police drama
• Rush (2014 TV series), an American medical drama
• Rush (2014 Kenyan TV series), a sitcom-soap opera
• "Rush" (The X-Files), an episode of The X-Files
• Nicholas Rush, a character in the television series Stargate Universe

• Rush (video game series), an arcade racing series
  • L.A. Rush, the fourth installment of the Rush series
• Rush (video gaming), an attack strategy
• Rush Jet, a robotic dog from the Megaman universe
• William Rush, protagonist in the Time Crisis 4 video game

Bands and albums

• Rush (band), a Canadian progressive rock band
  • Rush (Rush album), their 1974 debut album
• Rush (Anna Abreu album), 2011
• Rush (Bel Canto album), 1998
• Rush (Darude album), a 2003 trance album
• Rush (Dean Geyer album), a 2007 pop album
• Rushes (album), a 1998 ambient electronic album by The Fireman
• Rush (soundtrack), the soundtrack for the 1991 film
• Rush (2013 soundtrack), from the film of the same name

Songs

• "Rush" (Big Audio Dynamite II song), a 1991 alternative dance song
• "Rush" (The Pillows song), a 1999 Japanese-rock song
• "Rush" (Aly & AJ song), a 2005 pop song
• "Rush" (Poisonblack song), a 2006 goth-rock song
• "Rush" (William Singe song), 2017
• "Rush", a 1993 song by Depeche Mode on Songs of Faith and Devotion
• "Rush", a song by Uverworld from the album Timeless
• "Rush", a 2005 song by MYMP on Beyond Acoustic
• "The Rush", a 1991 song by Luther Vandross
• "Rushes" (song), Darius Danesh's second single from his debut album Dive In'
• "Rush Rush", 1991 Paula Abdul song
• "Rush Rush" (Debbie Harry song), 1983 song

• Rush (gridiron football), a tactic in American football
• Rush (Australian rules football), a tactic in Australian rules football
• Rush, in croquet, a roquet whose aim is to move the target ball a significant distance
• Chicago Rush, an Arena Football League team
• Saskatchewan Rush, a National Lacrosse League team

• USS Rush, the name of two United States Navy ships