Horseshoe A horseshoe is a 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 toenail, altho ...

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 game, lawn or Sandpit, sandbox area. The game is played by the players alternating turns to ...

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

Places

Settlements and jurisdictions

* Horse Shoe, North Carolina, 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 History of the United States Republican Party, Republican-controlled New Jersey Legislature, Legislature gerry ...

, 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 Bay (disambiguation), various localities * Horseshoe Canyon (Alberta), Canada *

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

, US * Horseshoe Harbour, Antarctica * Horseshoe Mountain (Colorado), US * Horseshoe Valley (disambiguation) *

The Horseshoe (Vietnam) The Horseshoe (also known as Fire Support Base Horseshoe, Horseshoe Hill or Hill 82), is an extinct volcano that was used by the 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF) as a military base during the Vietnam War. Geography The Horseshoe is located app ...

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 Commencemen ...

or the Horseshoe, a football stadium for 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 pedestrian mall in Downtown Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. It is owned by TLC Casino Enterprises. The casino is n ...

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

Horseshoe Indianapolis Horseshoe Indianapolis (formerly Indiana Grand Racing & Casino and Indiana Live!) is a casino with a horse racing track in Shelbyville, Indiana owned and operated by Caesars Entertainment (2020), Caesars Entertainment. It is the closest casino to ...

, a casino in Indianapolis *

Horseshoe Las Vegas Horseshoe Las Vegas is a casino hotel on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. It is owned and operated by Caesars Entertainment. It originally opened as the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino on December 4, 1973. The 26-story hotel contained 2,1 ...

, a casino in Las Vegas Strip * Horseshoe St. Louis, a casino in Louisiana *

Horseshoe Casino Tunica Horseshoe Casino Tunica is a casino resort located in Tunica Resorts, Mississippi, United States. 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 g ...

, a casino *

Horseshoe Resort Horseshoe Valley Resort, formerly Horseshoe Valley Ski Club, is an Ontario ski resort and four season vacation destination. Located north of Barrie, the resort is 110 km north of Toronto. The resort enjoys a long ski season due to snowmaking abi ...

, 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 nam ...

, 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 h ...

, 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 horseshoe crab, a kind of marine biology, marine and Brackish water, brackish chelicerate arthropod. It is found in the Gulf of Mexic ...

, ''Limulus polyphemus'' *

Horseshoe crab Horseshoe crabs are arthropods of the family Limulidae and the only surviving xiphosurans. Despite their name, they are not true crabs or even crustaceans; they are chelicerates, more closely related to arachnids like spiders, ticks, and scor ...

, 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 Ol ...

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, in roads and railways *

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

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

Other uses

* Horseshoe (symbol), "⊃", a logical connective meaning material conditional in propositional logic *

Horseshoe cloud A horseshoe cloud is a relatively uncommon meteorology, meteorological phenomenon which manifests as a cloud in the shape of a horseshoe or inverted U, letter "U". They occur when a horseshoe vortex deforms a cumulus cloud. The clouds are relati ...

, a meteorological phenomenon *

Horseshoe magnet A horseshoe magnet is either a permanent magnet or an electromagnet made in the shape of a horseshoe (in other words, in a U-shape). The permanent kind has become the most widely recognized symbol for magnets. It is usually depicted as red 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 behavior ...

, 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 ...

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

Horseshoe theory In popular discourse, the horseshoe theory asserts that advocates of the far-left and the far-right, rather than being at opposite and opposing ends of a linear continuum of the political spectrum, 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