Barrier

A barrier or barricade is a physical structure which blocks or impedes something.

Barrier may also refer to:

Places

• Barrier, Kentucky, a community in the United States
• Barrier, Voerendaal, a place in the municipality of Voerendaal, in southeastern Netherlands
• Horseshoe Canyon (Utah), formerly known as Barrier Canyon
• The Barrier, a lava dam in British Columbia, Canada
• Barrier Lake, Alberta, Canada
• Mount Baldy (Alberta), formerly known as Barrier Mountain
• The Barrier, an early name for the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica
• Barrier Bay, an open bay in Antarctica
• Barrier Volcano, an active shield volcano in Kenya
• Barrier Ranges, a mountain range in New South Wales, Australia
• Division of Barrier, a former Australian Electoral Division in New South Wales

In arts and entertainment

• Barrier (video game), a 1979 arcade game by Vectorbeam
• "Barrier", a 1985 song by Simon Townshend on the album Moving Target
• "Barriers", a song by Suede on their 2013 album Bloodsports
• Barriers (TV series), a UK television series
• The Barrier (1917 film), a lost 1917 American silent drama film
• The Barrier (1926 film), a silent film
• The Barrier (1937 film), an American film
• Bariera, a 1966 Polish film, released in the U.S. as Barrier
• The Barrier (1979 film), a Bulgarian film
• The Barrier (1990 film), a Bahraini film

People

• Eric B. (Louis Eric Barrier, born 1963), half of the hip hop duo Eric B. & Rakim
• Michael Barrier (historian) (born 1940), American animation historian
• Smith Barrier (1961–1989), American sports journalist

Other uses

• Barrier (computer science), a type of synchronization in parallel computing
• Barrier Highway, a state highway in New South Wales, Australia
• Barrier Air, a New Zealand airline
• Barrier (video game), a 1979 maze arcade game

• Boom barrier, a movable obstacle to temporarily block traffic

See also

• Traffic barrier (crash barrier), used to keep vehicles within their roadway
• Language barrier, difficulty in communications caused by language difference
• Trade barrier, a restriction of trade by a government
• Barrier option
• Concrete barrier (disambiguation)
• Great Barrier (disambiguation)
• Little Barrier Island, New Zealand
• Barrière (disambiguation)