A garage is a covered structure built for the purpose of

parking Parking is the act of stopping and disengaging a vehicle and leaving it unoccupied. Parking on one or both sides of a road is often permitted, though sometimes with restrictions. Some buildings have parking facilities for use of the buildings' ...

, storing, protecting, maintaining, and/or repairing

vehicles A vehicle (from la, vehiculum) is a machine that transports people or cargo. Vehicles include wagons, bicycles, motor vehicles (motorcycles, cars, trucks, buses, mobility scooters for disabled people), railed vehicles (trains, trams), wate ...

. Specific applications include: *

Garage (residential) A residential garage (, ) is a walled, roofed structure for storing a vehicle or vehicles that may be part of or attached to a home ("attached garage"), or a separate outbuilding or shed ("detached garage"). Residential garages typically have ...

, a building or part of a building for storing one or more vehicles *

Automobile repair shop An automobile repair shop (also known regionally as a garage or a workshop) is an establishment where automobiles are repaired by auto mechanics and technicians. Types Automotive garages and repair shops can be divided into following categor ...

, also called a garage, where vehicles are serviced and repaired *

Bus garage A bus garage, also known as a bus depot, bus base or bus barn, is a facility where buses are stored and maintained. In many conurbations, bus garages are on the site of former car barns or tram sheds, where trams (streetcars) were stored, and ...

, a building or complex used for storage of buses when not in use *

Filling station A filling station, also known as a gas station () or petrol station (), is a facility that sells fuel and engine lubricants for motor vehicles. The most common fuels sold in the 2010s were gasoline (or petrol) and diesel fuel. Gasoli ...

, an automotive service station where vehicles take on fuel or recharge *

Multistorey car park A multistorey car park (British and Singapore English) or parking garage (American English), also called a multistory, parking building, parking structure, parkade (mainly Canadian), parking ramp, parking deck or indoor parking, is a build ...

, or parking garage, a building serving as a public parking facility Other meanings of garage may include:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

* ''Garage'' (film), a 2007 film by Lenny Abrahamson * ''The Garage'' (1920 film), a film by Roscoe Arbuckle * ''The Garage'' (1980 film), a film by Eldar Ryazanov

Video game

* ''Garage'' (video game), a 1999 Japanese horror adventure video game

Music

Groups and genres

* Garage (band), a Czech rock band *

Garage house Garage house (originally known as "garage"; local terms include "New York house" and New Jersey sound) is a dance music style that was developed alongside Chicago house music. The genre was popular in the 1980s in the United States and the 1990s ...

, a form of dance music that emerged in the 1980s *

UK garage UK garage, abbreviated as UKG, is a genre of electronic dance music which originated in England in the early to mid-1990s. The genre was most clearly inspired by garage house, but also incorporates elements from dance-pop, R&B, and jungle. It ...

(also known as simply "garage"), a form of dance music that emerged in the 1990s *

Garage rock Garage rock (sometimes called garage punk or 60s punk) is a raw and energetic style of rock and roll that flourished in the mid-1960s, most notably in the United States and Canada, and has experienced a series of subsequent revivals. The sty ...

, a form of rock and roll that emerged in the 1960s

Albums

* ''Garage'' (album), a 2005 album by Cross Canadian Ragweed *''

Garage Inc. ''Garage Inc.'' is a compilation album of cover songs by American heavy metal band Metallica. It was released on November 24, 1998, through Elektra Records. It includes cover songs, B-side covers, and ''The $5.98 E.P. - Garage Days Re-Revisited'' ...

'', a 1998 compilation of cover songs by Metallica

Periodicals

* ''Garage'' (fanzine), a 1980s music fanzine from New Zealand * ''

Garage Magazine ''Garage'' is a biannual publication dedicated to contemporary art and fashion. It was founded by Dasha Zhukova in 2011. Its name comes from the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow, which Zhukova opened in 2008. A Russian-language editio ...

'', a biannual publication dedicated to contemporary art and fashion

Brands and enterprises

Garage (clothing retailer) Garage is a clothing store, primarily targeting young women. Founded in 1975 as a subsidiary of Groupe Dynamite Groupe Dynamite is a Canada-based clothing company, originally founded in 1975 as The Garage Clothing Company. The company create ...

, a US/Canadian retailer for teenage girls *

Garage (drink) Garage is an alcopop produced by the Finnish brewery Sinebrychoff. As of 2017, it is produced and marketed in two flavours, called "Hard Lemonade" and "Hard Ice Tea". Both flavours have an alcohol content of 4.6%. The "Hard Lemonade" flavour has i ...

, a Finnish alcopop drink *

Garage Museum of Contemporary Art The Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, also referred to simply as ''The Garage Museum'', is a privately funded art gallery in Moscow. It was founded by Dasha Zhukova and Roman Abramovich as the ''Garage Center for Contemporary Culture'' in 2008 an ...

, Moscow *

Paradise Garage Paradise Garage, also known as "the Garage" or the "Gay-rage", was a New York City discotheque notable in the history of dance and pop music, as well as LGBT and nightclub cultures. The club was founded by sole proprietor Michael Brody, and o ...

, also known as "the Garage" or the "Gay-rage", a now-defunct New York City discotheque located in a parking garage