Refuge is a place or state of safety. It may also refer to a more specific meaning:

Safety

  • Area of refuge, a location in a building that may be used by occupants in the event of a fire
  • Bunker, a defensive fortification designed to protect people from bombs or other attacks
  • Mountain hut, a shelter for travelers in mountainous areas, often remote
  • Women's refuge, another term for women's shelter
  • Refuge (United Kingdom charity), a British charity for female victims of domestic violence
  • A place intended to shelter cultural property, in the context of the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict
  • Refuge island, pedestrian safety feature at a road crossing point
  • Right of asylum, protection of a person persecuted for political or religious beliefs by another sovereign authority

Nature and biology

  • Wildlife refuge, a sanctuary or protected area for wildlife
  • Refuge (ecology), a place where an organism can escape from predation
  • Refugium (population biology), a location of an isolated or relict population of a previously more widespread species
  • Refuge crop, a non-genetically modified food crop planted alongside a genetically modified one to prevent or slow the development of predators resistant to its modified properties by purposely encouraging the mating of species across said crops

Film and television

  • Refuge (1923 film), an American silent drama film
  • Refuge (1928 film) or Escape, a German silent film
  • The Refuge (film), a 2009 French drama directed by François Ozon
  • Refuge (2012 film), an American drama directed by Jessica Goldberg
  • Refuge: Stories of the Selfhelp Home, a 2012 American documentary by Ethan Bensinger
  • "Refuge" (Law & Order), a television episode
  • "The Refuge" (The Outer Limits), a television episode

Literature

  • The Refuge (novel), a 1954 novel by Kenneth Mackenzie
  • Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place, a 1991 book by Terry Tempest Williams
  • Isaac Asimov's Robot City: Refuge, a 1988 novel by Rob Chilson

Music

  • Refuge (band), a side project of the German band Rage
  • Refuge Records, a 1980s American record label
  • Refuge (EP) or the title song, by Rage, 1994
  • Refuge, an album by Sons of Korah, 2014
  • Refuge, a soundtrack album by Carbon Based Lifeforms, 2013
  • "Refuge", a song by Psy from 4×2=8, 2017
  • "Refuge", a song by Steve Wilson from To the Bone, 2017

Other uses

  • Refuge, Mississippi
  • Refuge, Texas, an unincorporated community in Houston County, Texas
  • Eustache de Refuge (1564–1617), Early Modern French courtier, statesman and author
  • A controversial evangelical Christian, "ex-gay" conversion therapy program for homosexual teenagers run by Love In Action
  • Refuge (Buddhism), the basis of being a Buddhist

See also

  • Refugium (disambiguation)
  • Refugee (disambiguation)
  • City of Refuge (disambiguation)