Belly may refer to:
Anatomy
* The
abdomen, the part of the body between the pelvis and the thorax; or the
stomach
** A
beer belly, an overhang of fat above the waist, presumed to be caused by regular beer drinking
**
Belly dance
* The fleshy, central part of a
skeletal muscle
Skeletal muscles (commonly referred to as muscles) are organs of the vertebrate muscular system and typically are attached by tendons to bones of a skeleton. The muscle cells of skeletal muscles are much longer than in the other types of muscl ...
(also known as a "muscle belly")
People
* The nickname of the England cricketer
Ian Bell
*
Leon-August-Adolphe Belly, a 19th-century French painter
*
Pierre Belly (1738–1814), Louisiana planter, lawyer and judge
*
Belly Mujinga (1972/3–2020), Congolese-born transport worker who died in London from COVID-19
Places
*
Belly River, river in Alberta, Canada
Music
*
Belly (band), American alternative rock band
*
Belly (rapper)
Ahmad Balshe ( ar, أحمد بلوشي) (born 7 April 1984), known professionally as Belly, is a Palestinian-Canadian rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer. Born in Jenin, Balshe was raised in Ottawa. At twenty-one years old, he move ...
(born 1984), Canadian rap artist of Palestinian origin
*
Lead Belly
Huddie William Ledbetter (; January 20, 1888 – December 6, 1949), better known by the stage name Lead Belly, was an American folk music, folk and blues singer notable for his strong vocals, Virtuoso, virtuosity on the twelve-string guita ...
(1889–1949), real name Huddie William Ledbetter, American folk and blues musician
* The surface of a
sound board, of a string instrument
* A kind of
steelpan
Other
*
Belly (loyalty program), a digital loyalty program for small businesses
*
''Belly'' (film), a 1998 film
**
''Belly'' (soundtrack), a 1998 soundtrack album of the film
* The
draft, in a sail
*
Tuna, belly (fatty tuna), also known as ''toro'', used in Japanese food
*
Belly landing
A belly landing or gear-up landing occurs when an aircraft lands without its landing gear fully extended and uses its underside, or belly, as its primary landing device. Normally the term ''gear-up landing'' refers to incidents in which the pilot ...
, of an aircraft when it crashes onto a runway with its undercarriage retracted
See also
*
Belley (disambiguation)
{{disambiguation, surname