Stance may refer to:

Sports

Stance (American football) Stance is the position an American football player adopts when a play begins. There are three common stances used by linemen: two-point, three-point, and four-point. The stance names reference the number of points where a player's body is touching ...

, the position an American football player adopts when a play begins * Stance (martial arts), the distribution, foot orientation and body positions adopted when attacking, defending, advancing or retreating **

Stances (tae kwon do) The Korean martial art Taekwondo has several stances used for different activities. Taekwondo has a wide varietyits repertoire. These stances are most commonly seen in the form competition of Hyeong, and are critical for balance, precision, and g ...

, several stances used for different activities ** Horse stance, a posture in Asian martial arts ** Karate stances, body positions used to create power, flexibility and movement ** Wushu stances, a fundamental part of all Chinese martial arts *

Stance (yoga) An asana is a body posture, used in both medieval hatha yoga and modern yoga. The term is derived from the Sanskrit word for 'seat'. While many of the oldest mentioned asanas are indeed seated postures for meditation, asanas may be standing, seate ...

, also known as a posture or asana, a body position

Music

* ''Stance'' (EP), a 1978 record by R. Stevie Moore *

Stance Punks Stance Punks are a Japanese punk rock band, formed in 1998. The band gained fame through their performances at a rooftop live-venue in Shimokitazawa. Stance Punks' name spread overseas when their song "Mayonaka Shounen Totsugekidan" was used as ...

, a Japanese punk rock band, formed in 1999

Other uses

Stance (brand) Stance is an American sock, underwear and T-Shirt brand founded in December 2009. Stance is headquartered in San Clemente, California. As of March 2015, the company had sold over 36 million pairs of socks and raised over $115 million from investo ...

, an American sock and underwear brand * ''Stance'' (journal), an academic journal of philosophy *

Stance (vehicle) The stance of a vehicle is determined by its suspension height and the fitment of the wheels in the fender arches. It may refer to any vehicle, including sports cars, pickup trucks and off-road vehicles, however it is mostly associated with lowere ...

, a characteristic of a motor vehicle *

Stance (Vranje) Stance is a village in the municipality of Vranje, Serbia Serbia (, ; Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe, Southeastern and Cen ...

, a village in the municipality of Vranje, Serbia *

Stance (linguistics) In linguistics, stance is the way in which speakers position themselves in relation to the ongoing interaction, in terms of evaluation, intentionality, epistemology or social relations. When a speaker describes an object in a way that expresses the ...

, linguistic expression of judgement or philosophical position *

Emanuel Stance Emanuel Stance (1843 – December 25, 1887), also known as Edmund Stance, was a Buffalo Soldier in the United States Army and a recipient of America's highest military decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Indian Wars of the west ...

(1843-1887), a Buffalo Soldier in the United States Army * Life stance, a person's relation with what they accept as being of ultimate importance *A philosophical position in a

logical argument An argument is a statement or group of statements called premises intended to determine the degree of truth or acceptability of another statement called conclusion. Arguments can be studied from three main perspectives: the logical, the dialectic ...

*Various

human positions Human positions refer to the different physical configurations that the human body can take. There are several synonyms that refer to human positioning, often used interchangeably, but having specific nuances of meaning. *''Position'' is a gen ...

, especially standing positions {{disambiguation, surname