A fort is a fortification: a defensive military construction.

Fort, or The Fort, may also refer to:

Types of fortifications

  • Castle, a fortified building
  • Defensive wall, a fortified wall
  • Blanket fort or pillow fort, built by children
  • Device Forts, in England and Wales from 1539
  • Hillfort, earthworks used as a fortified refuge
  • Martello tower, in the British Empire 19th century
  • Promontory fort, mainly Iron Age
  • Star fort, in 15th and 16th century Europe
  • Tegart fort, in Palestine from 1930s
  • Wagon fort, a mobile fortification

Arts, entertainment and media

  • FORT, the peer-reviewed journal of the Fortress Study Group
  • Fort (band), an Australian band
  • Forts, a 2007 album by The Boggs
  • Forts (video game), a 2017 video game by EarthWork Games
  • The Fort, a 2022 novel by Gordon Korman
  • The Fort (novel), a 2010 novel by Bernard Cornwell

People

  • Fort (surname), includes a list of people with that name
  • Fořt, a Czech surname
  • Michael McKenry (born 1985), nicknamed "The Fort", an American baseball player

Places

  • Fort Avenue (disambiguation)
  • Fort Road (disambiguation)
  • Fort Street (disambiguation)

India

  • Fort (Mumbai precinct)

Sri Lanka

  • Fort (Colombo)

Philippines

  • Bonifacio Global City, also known as 'The Fort'

United Kingdom

  • Glasgow Fort, Scotland; a shopping centre

United States

  • A name prefix used for many United States Army installations
  • The Fort (Taft, California), a historic building
  • The Fort (Morrison, Colorado), a historic restaurant
  • The Fort (North Lewisburg, Ohio), a historic house
  • The Fort, a nickname for Gillette Stadium by New England Revolution soccer fans
  • The Fort (pickleball), a pickleball center and stadium in Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Other meanings

  • Fleet Fort, a Canadian World War II aircraft
  • RPC Fort, a Ukrainian arms manufacturer
  • Fort 12, a Ukrainian semi-automatic pistol

See also

  • Fortes, a name
  • for Wikipedia articles on forts
  • Fort-class replenishment ship (disambiguation)
  • Fort ship (disambiguation)
  • Fortress (disambiguation)
  • Forth (disambiguation)
  • Forte (disambiguation)
  • Castle (disambiguation)