Shelter

Fishermen's shelter houses on Barreta Island, Portugal.

Shelter is a basic architectural structure or building that provides cover.

The word may also refer to:

Organisation

• Shelter (charity), UK charity

Transportation

• Shelter (automobile), Dutch experimental city car of the 1950s

Places

• Port Shelter, Hong Kong
• Shelter Bay (disambiguation), various locations
• Shelter Cove (disambiguation), various locations
• Shelter Island (disambiguation), various locations
• Shelter Point, South Georgia Island

Music

Bands and labels

• Shelter (band) (since 1991), American Krishnacore band
• Shelter Records (1969–1981), American record label

Albums, chronologically

• Shelter (Lone Justice album), 1986
• Shelter (The Brand New Heavies) (Featuring Siedah Garrett), 1997
• Shelter (compilation), 2002 compilation by various
• Shelter (Rasa album), 2003 album by Rasa
• Shelter (soundtrack), 2008 album from the eponymous 2007 movie

Songs

• "Shelter", a song by Bedouin Soundclash from Sounding a Mosaic
• "Shelter", a song by thenewno2 from You Are Here
• "Shelter", a song by Ray Lamontagne
• "Shelter", a song by The xx from xx

Other media

• "The Shelter" (The Twilight Zone), an episode of the television series
• Shelter (1998 film), a 1998 film starring John Allen Nelson
• Shelter (2007 film), a 2007 film starring Trevor Wright
• Shelter (2010 film), a 2010 film starring Julianne Moore
• Shelter (novel), a novel by Susan Palwick published by Tor in 2007

Other uses

• Shelter in place, an emergency-response process
• Shelter rule, doctrine in the common law of property
• USS Shelter (AM-301), American minesweeper

See also

• Air-raid shelter
• Emergency shelter
• Homeless shelter
• Homelessness
• List of human habitation forms
• Transitional shelter