Lifeboat may refer to:

Rescue vessels

* Lifeboat (shipboard), a small craft aboard a ship to allow for emergency escape * Lifeboat (rescue), a boat designed for sea rescues * Airborne lifeboat, an air-dropped boat used to save downed airmen

Art and entertainment

* Lifeboat (1944 film), ''Lifeboat'' (1944 film), a movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock * Lifeboat (2018 film), ''Lifeboat'' (2018 film), a documentary * Stargate SG-1 (season 7), "Lifeboat" (''Stargate SG-1''), a television episode from the TV series * Lifeboat sketch, a sketch shown on ''Monty Python's Flying Circus'' * ''Lifeboat'', a 1972 album by the Sutherland Brothers * ''Lifeboat (album), Lifeboat'', a 2008 album by Jimmy Herring * "Lifeboats", a song on Snow Patrol's 2008 album, ''A Hundred Million Suns'' * "Lifeboat", a song from ''Heathers: The Musical''

Other uses

* ''Lifeboat'', journal of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution#Publications, Royal National Lifeboat Institution * Lifeboat ethics, proposed by Garret Hardin based on the metaphor of a lifeboat * Lifeboat Associates, a software distributor and magazine publisher in the 1970s and 1980s * Lifeboat Distribution, an international software distributor * Lifeboat Foundation, an existential risk reduction organization {{disambig