Shape is the characteristic surface configuration of a thing; an outline or contour.

Shape may also refer to:

Fictional characters

  • Michael Myers (Halloween), or The Shape, a fictional character from the Halloween horror film franchise
  • Shape (comics), a fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe
  • The Shape Japer, a villain in the BBC television series Numberjacks

Media

  • Shape (magazine), a fitness magazine
  • The Shape (book), a 2000 poetry collection by Dejan Stojanović
  • "Shapes" (The X-Files), an episode of the TV series The X-Files

Art

  • Shape (visual arts), a flat, enclosed area of an artwork

Music

Performers

  • The Shapes (UK band), a 1970s punk rock band
  • The Shapes, a UK experimental pop band fronted by Micachu
  • The Shapes (US band), a 2000s American band that wrote and performed the theme song for the TV series Dallas SWAT

Albums

  • Shape (album), a 1996 album by Frente!
  • Shapes (album), a 1997 album by Polvo
  • Shapes, a 1994 album by Greg Howard

Songs

  • "Shape" (song), a song by Sugababes
  • "Shape", a song by Joe Morris from Singularity
  • "Shapes", a song by The Long Winters from When I Pretend to Fall
  • "The Shape", a song by Slipknot from Iowa

Companies and organizations

  • Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE), the central command of NATO military forces, Casteau, Belgium
  • SHAPE America, working name of the Society of Health and Physical Educators, American organisation
  • SHAPE Services, a German software vendor
  • Shape Arts or simply Shape, a charity funded by Arts Council England

Food

  • Arnott's Shapes, a line of snack foods
  • Blancmange or shape, a sweet dessert

Other

  • Shape (Go), a description of positional qualities of a group of stones in the game of Go
  • SHAPE (molecular biology), Selective 2'-hydroxyl acylation analyzed by primer extension, a chemical-based RNA structure determination experiment
  • Social Sciences, Humanities and the Arts for People and the Economy (SHAPE), an acronym for these academic disciplines
  • Spectro-polarimetry of Habitable Planet Earth (SHAPE), scientific instrument onboard propulsion module of Chandrayaan-3
  • shape parameter a kind of numerical parameter for a parametric family of probability distributions

See also

  • Shapefile, a geospatial vector data format for geographic information systems software
  • Shape extension, in the X/Window System
  • Shape:UK or Shapeshifters, a 2000s-2010s house music production duo
  • The Shapes Project, an art project by Allan McCollum