# Belt

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**Belt** or **The Belt** may refer to:

## Apparel

- [Belt (clothing)](/source/Belt_(clothing)), a leather or fabric band worn around the waist
- [Championship belt](/source/Championship_belt), a type of trophy used primarily in combat sports
- Colored belts, such as a [black belt](/source/Black_belt_(martial_arts)) or [red belt](/source/Red_belt_(martial_arts)), worn by martial arts practitioners to signify rank in the [kyū](/source/Ky%C5%AB) ranking system

## Geology

- [Orogenic belt](/source/Orogenic_belt)
- [Greenstone belt](/source/Greenstone_belt)
- A large-scale linear or curved array or belt of [igneous rocks](/source/Igneous_rock) (e.g. [Transscandinavian Igneous Belt](/source/Transscandinavian_Igneous_Belt))
- A large-scale linear or curved array of mineral deposits (e.g. [Bolivian tin belt](/source/Bolivian_tin_belt))
- [Paired metamorphic belts](/source/Paired_metamorphic_belts)

## Mechanical and vehicular

- [Belt (mechanical)](/source/Belt_(mechanical)), a looped strip of material used to link multiple rotating shafts
- [Conveyor belt](/source/Conveyor_belt), a device for transporting goods along a fixed track
- [Belt manlift](/source/Belt_manlift), a device for moving people between floors in a building or grain elevator.
- [Seat belt](/source/Seat_belt), a safety device in automobiles and on the plane
- [Timing belt](/source/Timing_belt_(camshaft)), part of an internal combustion engine
- [Serpentine belt](/source/Serpentine_belt), move accessories of a combustion engine.
- [Belt track](/source/Belt_track), a type of track used on Caterpillar-style vehicles
- [Belt armor](/source/Belt_armor), a layer of heavy metal armor plated onto or within the outer hulls of warships
- [Belt (firearms)](/source/Belt_(firearms)), a type of ammunition used in light machine guns, like the M240 and Mk 48.
- [Steel belt](/source/Steel_belt), a type of conveyor belt

## Places

- [Belt, North Holland](/source/Belt,_North_Holland)
- [Belt, Montana](/source/Belt,_Montana), United States
- [Belt Parkway](/source/Belt_Parkway), a series of highways around New York City, United States
- [Danish belts](/source/Danish_belts), several straits in and around Denmark: - [Great Belt](/source/Great_Belt) - [Little Belt](/source/Little_Belt) - [Fehmarn Belt](/source/Fehmarn_Belt)
- Any of several informally defined [elongated regions of the United States](/source/List_of_belt_regions_of_the_United_States) and elsewhere
- Belts, Yiddish name of [Bălți](/source/B%C4%83l%C8%9Bi), Moldova
- Il-Belt, Maltese name of [Valletta](/source/Valletta), Malta

## Astronomy

- [Asteroid belt](/source/Asteroid_belt), a region of the solar system between Mars and Jupiter
- [Gould Belt](/source/Gould_Belt), a partial ring of stars representing the local spiral arm to which the Sun belongs
- [Kuiper belt](/source/Kuiper_belt), a region of the solar system beyond the orbit of Neptune
- [Orion's Belt](/source/Orion's_Belt)

## Other uses

- [Belt (surname)](/source/Belt_(surname))
- [Belting (music)](/source/Belting_(music)), a singing technique
- [*The Belt* (film)](/source/The_Belt_(film)), a 1989 erotic drama film
- [The Belt (album)](/source/The_Belt_(album)), an album by In the Valley Below
- [Judas belt](/source/Judas_belt), a firework
- [Green belt](/source/Green_belt), a policy and land use designation used in land use planning
- [Belt problem](/source/Belt_problem), a mathematics problem
- [Belt Supergroup](/source/Belt_Supergroup), a group of Mesoproterozoic sedimentary rocks
- [Belt Publishing](/source/Belt_Publishing), an American publisher
- [Belt (The Croods)](/source/Belt_(The_Croods)), a sloth character in [The Croods](/source/The_Croods) and its sequel, [The Croods: A New Age](/source/The_Croods:_A_New_Age), played by [Chris Sanders](/source/Chris_Sanders)

## See also

- [Balteus (disambiguation)](/source/Balteus_(disambiguation))
- Category:Belts (clothing)
- [Below the belt](/source/Below_the_belt)
- [Beltway](/source/Beltway)

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