Belt or The Belt may refer to:

Apparel

  • Belt (clothing), a leather or fabric band worn around the waist
  • Championship belt, a type of trophy used primarily in combat sports
  • Colored belts, such as a black belt or red belt, worn by martial arts practitioners to signify rank in the kyū ranking system

Geology

  • Orogenic belt
  • Greenstone belt
  • A large-scale linear or curved array or belt of igneous rocks (e.g. Transscandinavian Igneous Belt)
  • A large-scale linear or curved array of mineral deposits (e.g. Bolivian tin belt)
  • Paired metamorphic belts

Mechanical and vehicular

  • Belt (mechanical), a looped strip of material used to link multiple rotating shafts
  • Conveyor belt, a device for transporting goods along a fixed track
  • Belt manlift, a device for moving people between floors in a building or grain elevator.
  • Seat belt, a safety device in automobiles and on the plane
  • Timing belt, part of an internal combustion engine
  • Serpentine belt, move accessories of a combustion engine.
  • Belt track, a type of track used on Caterpillar-style vehicles
  • Belt armor, a layer of heavy metal armor plated onto or within the outer hulls of warships
  • Belt (firearms), a type of ammunition used in light machine guns, like the M240 and Mk 48.
  • Steel belt, a type of conveyor belt

Places

  • Belt, North Holland
  • Belt, Montana, United States
  • Belt Parkway, a series of highways around New York City, United States
  • Danish belts, several straits in and around Denmark:
  • Great Belt
  • Little Belt
  • Fehmarn Belt
  • Any of several informally defined elongated regions of the United States and elsewhere
  • Belts, Yiddish name of Bălți, Moldova
  • Il-Belt, Maltese name of Valletta, Malta

Astronomy

  • Asteroid belt, a region of the solar system between Mars and Jupiter
  • Gould Belt, a partial ring of stars representing the local spiral arm to which the Sun belongs
  • Kuiper belt, a region of the solar system beyond the orbit of Neptune
  • Orion's Belt

Other uses

  • Belt (surname)
  • Belting (music), a singing technique
  • The Belt (film), a 1989 erotic drama film
  • The Belt (album), an album by In the Valley Below
  • Judas belt, a firework
  • Green belt, a policy and land use designation used in land use planning
  • Belt problem, a mathematics problem
  • Belt Supergroup, a group of Mesoproterozoic sedimentary rocks
  • Belt Publishing, an American publisher
  • Belt (The Croods), a sloth character in The Croods and its sequel, The Croods: A New Age, played by Chris Sanders

See also

  • Balteus (disambiguation)
  • :Category:Belts (clothing)
  • Below the belt
  • Beltway