Pylon may refer to:

Structures and boundaries

  • Pylon (architecture), the gateway to the inner part of an Ancient Egyptian temple or Christian cathedral
  • Pylon, a support tower structure for suspension bridges or highways
  • Pylon, an orange marker designating a corner of an American football end zone
  • Aircraft pylon, an external mount for equipment such as engines and weapons
  • Electricity pylon, a steel lattice tower used to support an overhead power line
  • Traffic pylon, a cone-shaped marker that is placed on roads or footpaths to temporarily redirect traffic
  • Traction current pylon, a railroad pylon carrying at least one circuit for traction current

Arts, entertainment, and media

  • Pylon (album), a 2015 album by Killing Joke
  • Pylon (band), a rock band from Athens, Georgia, US
  • Pylon (novel), a 1935 novel by William Faulkner
  • Pylon (film) or The Tarnished Angels, a 1957 movie based on the novel
  • Pylon (StarCraft), a structure used by the Protoss race in the StarCraft universe
  • Pylon (play), a Scottish play
  • "Pylon" (Endeavour), a TV episode

Other uses

  • Pylon turn, a flight maneuver in which an aircraft banks into a circular turn around a fixed spot on the ground
  • Pylons project, a set of open source web application frameworks written in Python

See also

  • Pylon Peak (disambiguation), several mountains
  • Overhead line pylon (disambiguation)
  • Pilon (disambiguation)
  • Pylos, a town in Greece