Jive

Jive may refer to:

• JIVE, Joint Institute for VLBI in European astronomy
• JIVE (software), Java Interactive Visualization Environment
• Jive (dance), a dance style from 1940s
• Jive (dialect), African American Vernacular English
• Jive (publisher), a Japanese publishing company
• Jive Electro, a record label
• Jive filter, an English-to-Jive automatic translation program
• jive in Hinduism: individual higher/holy spirit a.k.a. oversoul
• JIVE Magazine, an entertainment/technology/urban culture magazine
• Jive Records, an American record label
• Hand jive, a kind of dance game from the 1950s
• Modern Jive or French Jive, a dance style from the 1980s

Jive may also be used for:

• Swing (genre)
• JIVE, an annual cultural festival at Jaypee Institute of Information Technology in India
• Jive, form of sign language used in William Gibson's Neuromancer