Belt

Belt may refer to:

Apparel

• Belt (clothing), a band worn around the waist
• Championship belt, a type of trophy used primarily in combat sports
• Colored belts, such as a black belt, worn by martial arts practitioners to signify rank in the kyū ranking system
• Breast belt

Mechanical and vehicular

• Belt (mechanical), a looped strip of material used to link multiple rotating shafts
• Conveyor belt, a device for transporting goods along a fixed track
• Seat belt, a safety device in automobiles
• Timing belt, part of an internal combustion engine
• Belt track, a type of track used on Caterpillar-style vehicles

Places

• Belt (Netherlands)
• Belt, Montana, United States
• Belt Parkway, a series of highways around New York City, United States
• The Belts, two straits of the Danish archipelago
• Any of several informally defined regions of the United States, such as the Bible Belt or the Rust Belt
• Belts, Yiddish name of Bălţi, Moldova

Astronomy

• Asteroid belt, a region of the solar system between Mars and Jupiter
• Gould Belt, a partial ring of stars representing the local spiral arm to which the Sun belongs
• Kuiper belt, a region of the solar system beyond the orbit of Neptune
• Orion's Belt, three stars in the constellation Orion

Other uses

• Belt (firearm), a device used to feed cartridges into a firearm
• Belt (music), a singing technique
• Judas belt, a firework
• Photon belt, a New Age belief
• Belt problem, a mathematics problem
• Belt Supergroup, a group of Mesoproterozoic sedimentary rocks
• Thomas Belt (1832–1878), English geologist and naturalist

See also

• Balteus (disambiguation)
• Category:Belts
• Below the belt
• Beltway