A cloud is a visible mass of condensed droplets or frozen crystals suspended in the atmosphere.

Cloud(s, y) may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

  • Cloud Strife, a character from Final Fantasy VII
  • Bou Keng Wan or Cloud, a character in Fung Wan

Literature

  • Clouds, a 1977 philosophical comedic play by Michael Frayn
  • The Clouds, a comedy play by Aristophanes, originally produced at the City Dionysia in 423 BC
  • The Clouds, a 1797 play by Richard Cumberland
  • The Clouds (Las nubes), a 1997 novel by Juan José Saer

Music

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  • Cloud (music), a sound mass consisting of statistical clouds of microsounds
  • Cloud Wan, a Hong Kong Cantopop singer from the 2020s
  • Clouds (60s rock band), a Scottish music group
  • The Clouds (Australian band), an indie rock group in the 1990s
  • The Clouds (Scottish band), an indie pop band from the 1980s
  • The Clouds (Manchester band), an indie pop band from the 1990s

Classical and jazz compositions

  • Clouds, a composition by Berthold Goldschmidt
  • Clouds, a composition by Charles Griffes
  • Clouds, a composition by Ned Rorem
  • "The Clouds" (composition)

Albums

  • Clouds (Apollo Brown album) (2011)
  • Clouds, an EP by Nosound
  • Clouds (Gaussian Curve album) (2015)
  • Clouds (Joni Mitchell album) (1969)
  • Clouds (Lee Ranaldo album) (1997)
  • Clouds (Tiamat album) (1992)
  • Clouds (The Mixtape), a mixtape by NF (2021)
  • The Clouds (album), an album by Stuart Hyatt

Songs

  • "Cloudy" (song), a song by Simon & Garfunkel
  • "Clouds" (Zach Sobiech song)
  • "Both Sides, Now" or "Clouds", a song by Joni Mitchell
  • "Clouds", a song by Chaka Khan from Naughty
  • "Clouds", a song by Level 42 from Retroglide
  • "Clouds", an interlude by Janet Jackson from All for You
  • "Clouds", a song by Kasabian from 48:13
  • "Clouds", a song by One Direction from Four
  • "Clouds", a song by Redrama (feat. A. J. McLean) from Reflection
  • "Clouds", a song by Spires That in the Sunset Rise from This Is Fire
  • "Clouds", a track by Slayyyter from her album Troubled Paradise
  • "Clouds", a 2013 song by Travis Garland from Travis Garland
  • "Clouds" (NF song), 2021
  • "Clouds", a 2020 song by Steps from the album What the Future Holds
  • "Cloudy", a song by Average White Band from Cut the Cake
  • "Clouds" (J. Cole song), 2025

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

  • Cloud (film), a 2024 Japanese film by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
  • Cloud (video game), a 2005 third-person computer puzzle game
  • Clouds (2000 film), an American film by Don Thompson
  • Clouds (2020 film), an American drama film by Justin Baldoni
  • "Cloudy", a 2017 episode of "Elements" from Adventure Time
  • Clouds (sculpture), a 2000 stainless steel abstract sculpture by Hans Van de Bovenkamp

Information technology

  • Cloud computing, Internet-based development and use of computer technology stored on servers rather than the client computers
  • Cloud storage, a model of networked online storage
  • Google Cloud, a name used by Google for several different offerings from time to time
  • Cloud (operating system), an operating system by Good OS
  • Cloud.com, software developer of Apache CloudStack

People with the name

  • Cloud (dancer) (born 1983), American dancer
  • Cloud (surname)
  • Clodoald or Cloud (522–560), son of King Chlodomer of Orleans

Places

  • Cloud County, Kansas
  • Clouds, Tennessee, an unincorporated community
  • Saint Cloud, Minnesota
  • Saint-Cloud, a commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France
  • Cloudy Peak, a mountain in New Zealand
  • Temple Cloud, a village in Somerset, England
  • Thorpe Cloud, a hill in Derbyshire, England

Other uses

  • CLOUD Act (the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act), a United States federal bill
  • CLOUD experiment, to investigate the microphysics between galactic cosmic rays and clouds
  • Clouds House, a country house in Wiltshire, England
  • Fascinator or cloud, a lightweight head-wrap

See also

  • Cloudberry
  • Cloud Nine (disambiguation)
  • Google Cloud
  • Red Cloud (disambiguation)
  • St. Cloud (disambiguation)
  • The Cloud (disambiguation)
  • White Cloud (disambiguation)