A path is a route for physical travel – see Trail. Path or PATH may also refer to:

Physical paths of different types

Bridle path A bridle path, also bridleway, equestrian trail, horse riding path, ride, bridle road, or horse trail, is a trail or a thoroughfare that is used by people riding on horses. Trails originally created for use by horses often now serve a wider r ...

, used by people on horseback * Course (navigation), the intended path of a vehicle * Desire path, created by human or animal foot traffic *

Footpath A footpath (also pedestrian way, walking trail, nature trail) is a type of thoroughfare that is intended for use only by pedestrians and not other forms of traffic such as motorized vehicles, bicycles and horses. They can be found in a wide ...

, intended for use only by pedestrians * Shared-use path, intended for multiple modes such as walking, bicycling, in-line skating or others *

Sidewalk A sidewalk (North American English), pavement (British English), footpath in Australia, India, New Zealand and Ireland, or footway, is a path along the side of a street, street, highway, terminals. Usually constructed of concrete, pavers, brick ...

, a paved path along the side of a road * Hoggin, a buff-coloured gravel & clay pathway often seen in gardens of Stately Homes, Parks etc. * Trail, an unpaved lane or road

Mathematics, physics, and computing

* Path (computing), in file systems, the human-readable address of a resource ** PATH (variable), in computing, a way to specify a list of directories containing executable programs * Path (graph theory), a sequence of edges of a graph that form a trail ** st-connectivity problem, sometimes known as the "path problem" * Path (topology), a continuous function *

Path (geometry) In mathematics, a curve (also called a curved line in older texts) is an object similar to a line, but that does not have to be straight. Intuitively, a curve may be thought of as the trace left by a moving point. This is the definition that ...

, a curve * Path, a name for the vectors in vector graphics ** Clipping path, in digital image processing *

Path (physics) A trajectory or flight path is the path that an physical body, object with mass in Motion (physics), motion follows through space as a function of time. In classical mechanics, a trajectory is defined by Hamiltonian mechanics via canonical coo ...

, a trajectory

Organizations

* PATH (global health organization), an international nonprofit organization in Seattle *

Partners for Advanced Transit and Highways California Partners for Advanced Transit and Highways (PATH) is a collaboration between the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), UC Berkeley, other public and private academic institutions, and private industry. PATH's mission: applyi ...

, a research organization operated by the University of California * PATH Foundation, a trail-building organization in Georgia, USA * People's Alliance of Tower Hamlets, a minor political party in Tower Hamlets, London * Positive Alternatives to Homosexuality, a coalition of anti-gay organizations * Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship, a non-profit organization that promotes the benefits equine-assisted therapies * Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness, American formula grant program

Other uses

* Path (social network), a photo sharing and messaging service * PATH (rail system), Port Authority Trans-Hudson, serving New York and New Jersey * Path (Toronto), a network of underground pedestrian tunnels in Toronto, Ontario, Canada * Golden Path (''Dune''), a metaphysical theme from Frank Herbert's ''Dune'' novels * " Path Vol. 1 & 2", a 2000 single by Apocalyptica *

Potomac-Appalachian Transmission Highline The Potomac-Appalachian Transmission Highline (PATH) was a proposed 290 mile 765 kilovolt electric power transmission line designed to supply power from the Amos Substation in Putnam County, West Virginia, to a proposed electrical substation to b ...

, a proposed electrical line *

Train path A train path is the infrastructure capacity needed to run a train between two places over a given time-period.Definition froDirective 2001/14/EC Article 2 (l), of the European Parliament and of the Council Within the European Union, a train operato ...

, infrastructure capacity needed to run a train between two places over a given time-period * ''Path'' (album), by American shoegaze musician Kraus

Physical paths of different types

Mathematics, physics, and computing

Organizations

Other uses

See also