Sandbox

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A sandbox is a sandpit, a wide, shallow playground construction to hold sand, often made of wood or plastic.

Sandbox or Sand box may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

• Sandbox (band), a Canadian rock music group
• Sandbox (Michael Houser album), 2006, or the title track
• Sandbox, a 1987 album by Guided by Voices
• Sandbox Theatre, an experimental theatre group in Minneapolis, Minnesota
• The Sandbox (play), a 1960 one-act play by Edward Albee
• The Sandbox (2012 video game), a 2012 game for mobile phones
• Sandbox (stylized s&box), an in-development game by Facepunch Studios

Computing

• Sandbox (computer security), a virtual container in which untrusted programs can be safely run
• Sandbox (software development), an environment in which code or content changes can be tested without affecting the original system
• Sandbox (video game editor), a game level editor for Far Cry
• Sandbox effect, in Google Internet search rankings
• Sandbox game, a genre or mode of some video games for open-ended, nonlinear play
• Sandbox Studios, a computer- and video-game developer

Other uses

• Sand box (civil engineering), a device to remove centring
• Sandbox (locomotive), a container that holds sand for use in improving rail adhesion in slippery conditions
• Sandbox (missile) or SS-N-12, a Soviet anti-ship missile
• Sandbox, a container for pounce (calligraphy), used before the invention of blotting paper
• Sandbox therapy, a tool used by child psychologists
• Sandbox tree, the evergreen species Hura crepitans of the spurge family (Euphorbiaceae), also known as possumwood and jabillo, native to tropical regions in the Americas

See also

• Litter box, an indoor sandbox, usually filled with kitty litter, in which house pets are trained to relieve themselves
• Sandboxie, an OS-level virtualization|operating system-level virtualization program