Cradle

Cradle may refer to:

Mechanical devices:

• Bassinet, a small bed, often on rockers, in which babies and small children sleep
• Ship cradle, supports a ship that is dry docked
• Cradle (grain), in agriculture is a device based upon a scythe to cleanly reap and harvest grain
• Cradle (mining), used to separate gold from other rocks.
• Newton's cradle, a device that demonstrates conservation of momentum and energy via a series of swinging spheres

Arts and literature:

• Cradle (band), a popular Malay rock band from Singapore that was formed in 1995 by four well-known musicians in the music industry at that time
• Cradle (novel), a novel by Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee
• Cradle (song), a single released by British girl group Atomic Kitten
• The Cradle, a 2007 horror film starring Lukas Haas and Emily Hampshire
• Cradle of filth, an Extreme metal band from Suffolk, England
• Cradle (circus act), an aerial circus act
• Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, a recycling and industrial management book
• The Pleasure Seekers/Cradle#Cradle, a band that Suzi Quatro played in (in the late 1960s and early 1970s) before she became famous

As a metaphor for humanity's origins:

• Cradle of Humankind, a World Heritage Site near Johannesburg in South Africa, where many early hominid remains were discovered
• Cradle of civilization, any of the various regions regarded as the earliest centers of civilization
• Cradle of Liberty (disambiguation)

Other:

• Cradle (circus act) (also known as aerial cradle or casting cradle), a type of aerial circus act
• Cradle (wrestling), a very basic move in amateur wrestling
• Cradle to Cradle, a biomimetic approach to the design of systems