Horseshoe A horseshoe is a fabricated product designed to protect a horse hoof from wear. Shoes are attached on the palmar surface (ground side) of the hooves, usually nailed through the insensitive hoof wall that is anatomically akin to the human toen ...

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 a ...

, 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 Horseshoe is an abandoned town in Western Australia located in the Murchison goldfields within the Mid West region of Western Australia situated between Meekatharra and Newman. The town is adjacent to the Peak Hill goldfields. History Gold ...

, an abandoned town * Horseshoe Bend (disambiguation), a number of places * Horse Shoe Curve, Virginia, an unincorporated community

Landforms and geology

Horseshoe Canyon (Alberta) Horseshoe Canyon is a region of badlands surrounded by prairie in the province of Alberta, Canada. It is located about west of the town of Drumheller, Alberta, along Highway 9. The canyon gets its name from its horseshoe shape, defined by t ...

, 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 art ...

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

Facilities and structures

Ohio Stadium Ohio Stadium is an American football stadium in Columbus, Ohio, on the campus of Ohio State University. It primarily serves as the home venue of the Ohio State Buckeyes football team and is also the site for the university's Spring Commencement c ...

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, Benny ...

, a casino *

Horseshoe Bossier City Horseshoe Bossier City is a riverboat casino in Bossier City, Louisiana, across the river from Shreveport, Louisiana, Shreveport. Horseshoe Bossier City has 606 suites in its 25-story hotel tower. Horseshoe has over 1,500 slot machines and over ...

, a casino in Louisiana *

Horseshoe Casino Baltimore Horseshoe Baltimore is an urban two-story casino, and the second largest casino in Maryland with a 122,000-square-foot gaming floor.Rector, Kevin. "As Horseshoe Casino Rises, Officials Work behind the Scenes for Smooth Launch." Baltimore Sun. N.p ...

, 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. Horses ...

, 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 Horseshoe Resort, formerly Horseshoe Valley Ski Club, is an Ontario ski resort and four season vacation destination. Located north of Barrie, the resort is about 1 hour 15 minutes driving time from Toronto. The resort enjoys a long ski season du ...

, or Horseshoe Valley Ski Club, a ski resort in southern Ontario *

Horseshoe Southern Indiana Caesars Southern Indiana (formerly Caesars Indiana and Horseshoe Southern Indiana) is a casino hotel in Southern Indiana. Opened in 1998, it is owned by Vici Properties and operated by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, using the Caesars name ...

, 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 scorp ...

, ''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 arachn ...

, 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 The New Gods are a fictional extraterrestrial race appearing in the eponymous comic book series published by DC Comics, as well as selected other DC titles. Created and designed by Jack Kirby, they first appeared in February 1971 in ''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 horseshoe cloud is a relatively uncommon meteorological phenomenon which manifests as a cloud in the shape of a horseshoe or inverted letter "U". They occur when a horseshoe vortex deforms a cumulus cloud. The clouds are relatively short- ...

, 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 a ...

Horseshoe map In the mathematics of chaos theory, a horseshoe map is any member of a class of chaotic maps of the square into itself. It is a core example in the study of dynamical systems. The map was introduced by Stephen Smale while studying the behavi ...

, 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 the ...

, 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

Places

Settlements and jurisdictions

Landforms and geology

Facilities and structures

Hospitality

Animals

Arts, entertainment, and media

Transportation

Other uses

See also