Woods or The Woods may refer to:

Common meanings

Woodland A woodland () is, in the broad sense, land covered with trees, or in a narrow sense, synonymous with wood (or in the U.S., the ''plurale tantum'' woods), a low-density forest forming open habitats with plenty of sunlight and limited shade (see ...

Forest A forest is an area of land dominated by trees. Hundreds of definitions of forest are used throughout the world, incorporating factors such as tree density, tree height, land use, legal standing, and ecological function. The United Nations' ...

Wood Wood is a porous and fibrous structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants. It is an organic materiala natural composite of cellulose fibers that are strong in tension and embedded in a matrix of lignin th ...

, solid material from trees or shrubs

Places

United States

Woods, Kentucky Woods is an unincorporated community and coal town in Floyd County, Kentucky Kentucky ( , ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States and one of the states of the Upper Sout ...

Woods, Oregon Woods is an unincorporated community in Tillamook County, Oregon, United States. Woods lies at the intersection of Brooten Road, Resort Drive, and Old Woods Road, along the Nestucca River The Nestucca River flows for about through forests n ...

* Woods, a municipality in

Liberty County, Florida Liberty County is a county located in the state of Florida. As of the 2020 census, the population was 7,974, making it the least populous county in Florida. Its county seat is Bristol. Liberty County is one of only two dry counties in Florida ( ...

* The Woods, a neighborhood in

Shenandoah, Louisiana Shenandoah is an unincorporated area and census-designated place (CDP) in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is part of the Baton Rouge Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 18,399 at the 2010 census, up from 17,070 ...

Elsewhere

* Woods, Ontario, an area of Carling, Ontario, Canada *

Woods, South Australia Owen (postcode 5460) is a rural community in the heart of the Adelaide Plains. Owen is above sea-level and receives a reliable 416 mm (about 16.5 inches) of rain annually and was first settled in about 1865. It is about 80 km nor ...

, an area of Owen * The Woods, a locality in

Sandwell Sandwell is a metropolitan borough of the West Midlands county in England. The borough is named after the Sandwell Priory, and spans a densely populated part of the West Midlands conurbation. According to Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council, t ...

, England

Culture

Film

* ''The Woods'' (2006 film), a film directed by Lucky McKee * ''The Woods'' (2011 film), a film directed by Matthew Lessner * ''The Woods'', a false working title used for the 2016 film ''Blair Witch'' (film)

Music

* ''The Woods'' (album), 2005 album by Sleater-Kinney *

Woods (band) Woods is an American folk rock band from Brooklyn, New York, formed in 2005. The band consists of Jeremy Earl (vocals, guitar), Jarvis Taveniere (various instruments, production), Aaron Neveu (drums), Chuck Van Dyck (bass), and Kyle Forester (ke ...

, American folk-rock band from New York * "Woods", a song by Fireworks from their album ''

Oh, Common Life ''Oh, Common Life'' (stylized as ''(oh), common life.'') is the third studio album by American rock band Fireworks. After the release of their previous album, ''Gospel'' (2011), the band went on hiatus. During this hiatus the band wrote and demoed ...

'', 2014 * "Woods", a song by Mac Miller from his album ''

Circles A circle is a shape consisting of all points in a plane that are at a given distance from a given point, the centre. Equivalently, it is the curve traced out by a point that moves in a plane so that its distance from a given point is const ...

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Other uses in culture

* ''The Woods'', 2007 novel by

Harlan Coben Harlan Coben is an American writer of mystery novels and thrillers. The plots of his novels often involve the resurfacing of unresolved or misinterpreted events in the past, murders, or fatal accidents and have multiple twists. Among his novels a ...

* ''The Woods'' (play), 1977 play by David Mamet * ''The Woods'' (comic), a graphic novel by James Tynion IV and Michael Dialynas * ''The Woods'' (miniseries) ( pl, W głębi lasu, link=no), a Polish web television miniseries

Sports

* Another name for lawn

bowls Bowls, also known as lawn bowls or lawn bowling, is a sport in which the objective is to roll biased balls so that they stop close to a smaller ball called a "jack" or "kitty". It is played on a bowling green, which may be flat (for "flat-gre ...

Wood (golf) A wood is a type of club used in the sport of golf. Woods have longer shafts and larger, rounder heads than other club types, and are used to hit the ball longer distances than other types. Woods are so called because, traditionally, they had a ...

, a type of golf club

Other uses

Woods Motor Vehicle Woods Motor Vehicle Company was an American manufacturer of electric automobiles in Chicago, Illinois, between 1899 and 1916. In 1915 they produced the Dual Power (U.S. Patent # 1244045) with both electric and internal combustion engines which c ...

, an American manufacturer of electric automobiles between 1899 and 1916 *

Woods (surname) Woods is a common surname of English, Scottish and Irish origin.Irish Ancestors: ...

, a family name * Sacred woods, another term for

sacred grove Sacred groves or sacred woods are groves of trees and have special religious importance within a particular culture. Sacred groves feature in various cultures throughout the world. They were important features of the mythological landscape and ...