The horizon is the line at which the sky and the Earth's surface appear to meet.

Horizon or The Horizon may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment and media

Art

  • Horizontes (Horizons), 1913 painting by Francisco Antonio Cano Cardona
  • Horizons (ballet), a modern dance work
  • Horizons, a sculpture by Neil Dawson

Films

  • Horizon (1932 film), a Soviet film
  • The Horizon (film), a 1961 Soviet film
  • Horizon (1971 film), a Hungarian film
  • , a Japanese film directed by Kaneto Shindo
  • Horizon (1989 film), an Iranian film
  • Horizon (), a 2013 Jordanian short film by Zain Duraie
  • Horizon (2018 film), a Georgian film
  • Horizon: An American Saga, a planned series of four American epic Western films
  • Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1
  • Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 2
  • Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 3
  • Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 4, TBA

Music

Bands

  • Horizon (band), a German metal band
  • Hori7on, a South Korea-based Filipino boy band

Albums

  • Horizon (The Carpenters album), 1975
  • Horizon (Culture Beat album), 1991
  • Horizon (Eddie Rabbitt album), 1980
  • Horizon (Remioromen album), 2006
  • Horizon (Sun Ra album), 1972
  • Horizon (McCoy Tyner album), 1979
  • Horizon, album by BZN
  • Horizons (Kris Allen album), 2014
  • Horizons (Beyond the Black album), 2020
  • Horizons (Charles McPherson album), 1968
  • Horizons (Parkway Drive album), 2007
  • Horizons (Starset album), 2021
  • Horizons (Ira Sullivan album), 1987
  • Horizon (The Rocking Horse Winner album), 2002

Songs

  • "Horizon" (Jaehyun song), a 2023 single by Jaehyun
  • "Horizon" (Jessica Andersson song), Melodifestivalen 2021 entry
  • "Horizon", a song by Akina Hakamori from the album Possibility
  • "Horizon", a song by Aldous Harding from the album Party
  • "Horizon", a song by The Arrogant Worms from their album C'est Cheese
  • "Horizon", a song by Ateez from the EP Treasure Epilogue: Action to Answer
  • "Horizon", a song by The Bats from the album At the National Grid
  • "Horizon", a song by Cat Power from the album Wanderer
  • "Horizon", a song by Daft Punk from the album Random Access Memories
  • "Horizon", a song by D'espairsRay from the album Redeemer
  • "Horizon", a song by Diaura from the album Triangle
  • "Horizon", a song by Genesis from the album Foxtrot
  • "Horizon", a song by Mercenary from the album First Breath
  • "Horizon", a song by Nickelback from the album Get Rollin
  • "Horizon", a song by Taemin from the EP Eternal
  • "Horizon", a song by Warbringer from the album IV: Empires Collapse
  • "Horizons", a song by LTJ Bukem
  • "Horizons", a song by Trenches from the album Reckoner
  • "Horizons", a song by the 3rd and the Mortal from the album Painting on Glass

Publications

Periodicals

  • Horizon (American magazine), 1958–1989, originally published by American Heritage
  • Horizon (British magazine), British magazine, 1940–1949, founded by Cyril Connolly, Stephen Spender and Peter Watson
  • Horizon (online magazine), research and innovation magazine published by the European Commission
  • Horizon Weekly, Armenian-Canadian newspaper publication
  • Horizons (magazine), research magazine of the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences
  • Horizons (journal), a religious study journal
  • The Horizon: A Journal of the Color Line, U.S. magazine, 1907–1919, edited by W.E.B. Du Bois
  • Horizons (periodical), in-house journal of the Royal Automobile Club of Western Australia

Works

  • Horizon (novel), a 2009 fantasy novel by Lois McMaster Bujold

Television

  • Horizon (British TV programme), a long-running British programme on BBC television showing popular science documentaries
  • Horizon (Canadian TV program), a 1963–1964 Canadian current affairs television program that aired on CBC
  • Arizona Horizon, a current events television program that debuted Arizona-based KAET in 1981
  • "Horizon" (Star Trek: Enterprise), a 2003 second-season episode of Star Trek: Enterprise
  • "The Horizon" (Alias), a 2005 episode
  • Pokémon Horizons: The Series, the 26th season of the Pokémon anime series
  • Pokémon Horizons – The Search for Laqua, the follow-up 27th season
  • Pokémon Horizons – Rising Hope, the follow-up 28th season

Web series

  • The Horizon (web series), a web series which premiered on YouTube

Video games

  • Horizon (video game series), a series of action role-playing games developed by Guerrilla Games
  • Horizon Zero Dawn, a 2017 video game for the PlayStation 4 and Microsoft Windows
  • Horizon Forbidden West, a 2022 sequel for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 and Microsoft Windows
  • Horizons: Empire of Istaria, the original name of the MMORPG Istaria: Chronicles of the Gifted
  • Forza Horizon, a 2012 open world racing game for Xbox 360, which became a sub-series for the Forza racing game franchise
  • Animal Crossing: New Horizons, a 2020 video game for the Nintendo Switch
  • Horizon, a playable character in the game Apex Legends

Organizations

Companies

  • Horizon (camera), a swing-lens panoramic camera manufactured in Russia
  • Horizon Fitness, a fitness equipment subsidiary of Johnson Health Tech
  • Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies, a corporation specializing in fuel cell technology
  • Horizon Nuclear Power, a British energy company
  • Horizon Organic, an American company that produces dairy and egg products
  • Horizon Pipeline, a small natural gas pipeline that moves gas in northern Illinois
  • Horizon Power, a corporation owned by the Government of Western Australia
  • Horizons Satellite, a joint venture between Intelsat and SKY Perfect JSAT Group that owns a fleet of Horizons satellites
  • Horizon (store), a discount department store
  • Horizon Records, an American record label
  • Horizon Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company
  • Warner Horizon Television, Warner Bros Television’s division formed in 2006

Events

  • Horizons Gorwelion, an annual festival aimed at promoting independent contemporary new music in Wales
  • Orizzonti (Horizons), a parallel section of the Venice Film Festival

Radio and television providers

  • Horizont (radio station), or Horizon Radio, a state-owned Bulgarian Radio Station
  • Heart 103.3, or Horizon Radio (UK), a UK radio station

Schools

  • École secondaire l'Horizon, a French public secondary school in Quebec, Canada
  • Horizon High School (disambiguation)
  • Horizon Science Academy, a group of charter schools which is owned by Concept Schools in Ohio, United States

Other organizations

  • Horizon League, a collegiate athletic conference in the midwestern USA
  • Horizon 2020, a funding programme by the European Union for innovation and economic growth
  • Horizon Europe, continuation of Horizon 2020
  • Horizons (political party), French center-right political party
  • Horizon Health Network, a health authority or hospital network in New Brunswick, Canada

Places

  • Horizons Region, official name of the Manawatu-Whanganui region in New Zealand
  • Horizon, Saskatchewan, hamlet in Saskatchewan, Canada
  • Rosemont Horizon, the former name of Allstate Arena, a multipurpose arena in Rosemont, Illinois, United States
  • Horizon City, Texas , a town in Texas, United States
  • Horizons (Epcot), a former Epcot Center attraction at Walt Disney World

Science

Computing

  • Horizon effect, in artificial intelligence: the computational limit beyond which conventional game-tree search algorithms make suboptimal decisions
  • Horizons: Software Starter Pack, a 1982 software compilation for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum
  • North Star Horizon, an 8-bit computer system based on the ZiLOG Z80A microprocessor
  • Split horizon route advertisement, one of the methods in computer networks used to prevent routing loops
  • Omnissa Horizon, a commercial desktop-virtualisation product released in 2014 (formerly called VMware Horizon and VMware Horizon View)
  • Nintendo Switch system software, internally known as Horizon
  • Horizon, a social platform being built by Meta Platforms, encompassing Horizon Home, Horizon Worlds, Horizon Workrooms, Horizon Venues and Horizon Marketplace
  • Horizon accounting system, the Fujitsu IT and accounting system at the heart of the British Post Office scandal

Earth science and archeology

  • Horizon (archaeology), a distinctive sediment, artefact, style or other cultural trait that is found at archaeological sites across a large geographical area
  • Horizon (geology), a bedding plane or a thin bed of distinctive character within a stratigraphic sequence
  • Marker horizon, a distinctive stratigraphic unit, of the same age across several locations
  • Soil horizon, a specific and distinctive layer in a land area

Physics

  • Horizon (general relativity), that play a role in Einstein's theory of general relativity
  • Absolute horizon, a boundary in spacetime in general relativity inside of which events cannot affect an external observer
  • Apparent horizon, a surface defined in general relativity
  • Cauchy horizon, a surface found in the study of Cauchy problems
  • Celestial horizon, a great circle parallel to the horizon
  • Cosmological horizon, a limit of observability: the maximum distance from which particles can have travelled to an observer in the age of the universe
  • Event horizon, a boundary in spacetime beyond which events cannot affect the observer
  • JPL Horizons On-Line Ephemeris System, an interactive facility that computes the position of many solar system objects
  • Killing horizon, a null surface on which there is a Killing vector field
  • Radio horizon, the locus of points in telecommunication at which direct rays from an antenna are tangential to the surface of the Earth

Transportation

  • Horizon (railcar), an Amtrak passenger car used mostly in the Midwest
  • Attitude indicator, or Artificial horizon, an instrument used in an aircraft to inform the pilot of the orientation of the airplane relative to the ground
  • , a cruise ship operated by Carnival Cruise Line
  • Chrysler Horizon, also known as the Talbot Horizon, a compact hatchback designed by Chrysler Europe
  • Honda Horizon, an SUV based on the Isuzu Trooper
  • Fisher Horizon, a kit aircraft
  • Hawker Horizon, the original name of the Hawker 4000 business jet
  • Halman Horizon, a Canadian sailboat design
  • Horizon Air, a regional airline and subsidiary of the Alaska Air Group
  • Horizon Airlines (Australia), an Australian airline based in Sydney
  • Horizon-class frigate, a multi-national collaboration to produce a new generation of anti-air warfare frigates
  • , a cruise ship operated by Pullmantur Cruises

Other uses

  • Project Horizon, a study to determine the feasibility of the construction of a military base on the moon conducted in 1959
  • Fusion of horizons, a philosophical understanding that results from the dynamic process of integrating the 'Other' and the familiar
  • Time horizon, the amount of time an organisation will look into the future when preparing a strategic plan

See also

  • Gorizont (disambiguation)
  • Horizont (disambiguation)
  • Mirage, a naturally occurring optical phenomenon
  • New Horizon (disambiguation)
  • New Horizons (disambiguation)