Horseshoe is a shoe for horses and by analogy is applied to many things with a similar shape.

Horseshoes (game) Horseshoes is a lawn game played between two people (or two teams of two people) using four horseshoes and two throwing targets (stakes) set in a lawn or sandbox area. The game is played by the players alternating turns tossing horseshoes at ...

, a tossing game played with a horseshoe Horseshoe(s) or Horse Shoe(s) may also refer to:

Places

* Horseshoe Valley (disambiguation)

Settlements and jurisdictions

Horse Shoe, North Carolina Horse Shoe is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Henderson County, North Carolina, Henderson County, North Carolina, United States. Its ZIP code is 28742. As of the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census, its populatio ...

, a town near a lake with the same name * Horseshoe, Arkansas, an unincorporated community *

Horseshoe, Jersey City The Horseshoe section of Jersey City, New Jersey, was the second ward, and was the home of the immigrants, tenements, and taverns. The Republican-controlled Legislature gerrymandered the district in 1871 to concentrate and isolate Democratic, and ...

, a ward of Jersey City, New Jersey * Horseshoe, Western Australia, an abandoned town * Horseshoe Bend (disambiguation), a number of places * Horse Shoe Curve, Virginia, an unincorporated community

Landforms and geology

* Horseshoe Canyon (Alberta), Canada *

Horseshoe Canyon (Utah) Horseshoe Canyon, formerly known as Barrier Canyon, is in a remote area west of the Green River and north of the Canyonlands National Park Maze District in Utah, United States. It is known for its collection of Barrier Canyon Style (BCS) rock ar ...

, USA * Horseshoe Mountain (Colorado), USA * The Horseshoe (Vietnam)

Facilities and structures

* Ohio Stadium or the Horseshoe, a football stadium for the Ohio State University * The Horseshoe, a quadrangle in the Old Campus District of the University of South Carolina

Hospitality

Binion's Horseshoe Binion's Gambling Hall & Hotel, formerly Binion's Horseshoe, is a casino on Fremont Street along the Fremont Street Experience mall in Downtown Las Vegas, Nevada. It is owned by TLC Casino Enterprises. The casino is named for its founder, Ben ...

, a casino * Horseshoe Bossier City, a casino in Louisiana * Horseshoe Casino Baltimore, a Caesars Entertainment Casino in Maryland *

Horseshoe Casino Hammond Horseshoe Casino Hammond, located in Hammond, Indiana, is a property containing gaming, entertainment, restaurants, bars, and lounges. History Horseshoe Casino originally opened as Empress Casino in 1996 as a , four-level gaming vessel. Horse ...

, a casino *

Horseshoe Casino Tunica Horseshoe Casino Tunica is a casino resort located in Tunica Resorts, Mississippi. It was developed by Jack Binion, the son of Las Vegas gaming legend Benny Binion, and named after his father's famous Binion's Horseshoe downtown gambling hall. Muc ...

, a casino * Horseshoe Resort, or Horseshoe Valley Ski Club, a ski resort in southern Ontario * Horseshoe Southern Indiana, formerly Caesars Indiana *

Horseshoe Tavern The Horseshoe Tavern (known as ''The Horseshoe'', ''The 'Shoe'', The 'Toronto Tavern' and The 'Triple T' to Toronto locals) is a concert venue at 370 Queen Street West (northeast corner of Queen at Spadina) in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and ...

, a bar in downtown Toronto

Animals

Atlantic horseshoe crab The Atlantic horseshoe crab (''Limulus polyphemus''), also known as the American horseshoe crab, is a species of marine and brackish chelicerate arthropod. Despite their name, horseshoe crabs are more closely related to spiders, ticks, and sco ...

, ''Limulus polyphemus'' *

Horseshoe crab Horseshoe crabs are marine and brackish water arthropods of the family Limulidae and the only living members of the order Xiphosura. Despite their name, they are not true crabs or crustaceans: they are chelicerates, most closely related to ar ...

, a marine arthropod *

Horseshoe bat Horseshoe bats are bats in the family Rhinolophidae. In addition to the single living genus, ''Rhinolophus'', which has about 106 species, the extinct genus '' Palaeonycteris'' has been recognized. Horseshoe bats are closely related to the Old ...

Arts, entertainment, and media

* ''Horse Shoes'' (1927 film), a film starring Monty Banks and Jean Arthur * ''Horseshoes'' (1923 film), a film starring Oliver Hardy * "Horseshoes" (song), a 2000 song by Adam Gregory *

, a tossing game played with a horseshoe * "Horseshoe", a 2014 song by Withered Hand from '' New Gods''

Transportation

Horseshoe Bridge The Horseshoe Bridge in Perth, Western Australia is a traffic bridge that connects the Perth CBD to Northbridge, carrying William Street. It was constructed in 1904 to pass over the Fremantle railway line, with the horseshoe shape designed to f ...

, Perth, Western Australia *

Horseshoe curve A horseshoe curve is a class of climbing curve in a roadbed which reverses turn direction (inflection) twice on either side of a single tight curve that varies through an angle of about 180 degrees or more. Such curves are more commonly found ...

, in roads and railways *

Horseshoe Curve (Pennsylvania) Horseshoe Curve is a three-track railroad curve on Norfolk Southern Railway's Pittsburgh Line in Blair County, Pennsylvania. The curve is about long and in diameter. Completed in 1854 by the Pennsylvania Railroad as a way to reduce the westbou ...

, a famous railroad curve * Horseshoe route, a WWII air route * Horseshoe run, a 19th-century steamship route

Other uses

Horseshoe (symbol) Horseshoe Whitehead, A.N., and Russell, Bertrand, ''Principia Mathematica'' (⊃, \supset in TeX) is a symbol used to represent: * Material conditional in propositional logic * Superset in set theory It was used by Whitehead and Russell in ''P ...

, "⊃", a logical connective meaning material conditional in propositional logic * Horseshoe cloud, a meteorological phenomenon *

Horseshoe magnet A horseshoe magnet is a magnet made in the shape of a horseshoe or a U-shape and has become the most widely recognized symbol for magnets. It was invented by William Sturgeon in 1825. This type of magnet can be either a permanent magnet or ...

* Horseshoe map, in chaos theory *

Horseshoe moustache A horseshoe moustache, also known as a biker moustache, is a full moustache with vertical extensions grown on the corners of the lips and down the sides of the mouth to the jawline, resembling an upside-down U or a horseshoe. The whiskers grown ...

Horseshoe sandwich The horseshoe is an open-faced sandwich originating in Springfield, Illinois, United States. It consists of thick-sliced toasted bread (often Texas toast), a hamburger patty or other choice of meat, French fries, and cheese sauce. While hamb ...

, an open-faced sandwich found regionally in the Midwest *

Horseshoe theory In political science and popular discourse, the horseshoe theory asserts that the extreme left and the extreme right, rather than being at opposite and opposing ends of a linear political continuum, closely resemble each other, analogous to t ...

, in political science *

Horseshoe vortex The horseshoe vortex model is a simplified representation of the vortex system present in the flow of air around a wing. This vortex system is modelled by the ''bound vortex'' (bound to the wing) and two '' trailing vortices'', therefore having ...

, simplified model of the vortex system in the airflow around a wing * Ʊ (minuscule: ʊ), also called horseshoe u, a letter of the International Phonetic Alphabet