Shift may refer to:

Art, entertainment, and media

Gaming

* ''Shift'' (series), a 2008 online video game series by Armor Games * '' Need for Speed: Shift'', a 2009 racing video game ** '' Shift 2: Unleashed'', its 2011 sequel

Literature

* ''Shift'' (novel), a 2010 alternative history book by Tim Kring and Dale Peck * ''Shift'' (novella), a 2013 science fiction book, part two of the Silo trilogy by Hugh Howey * Shift the Ape, a character in ''The Chronicles of Narnia'' novel series * Shift (DC Comics), a

DC Comics DC Comics (originally DC Comics, Inc., and also known simply as DC) is an American comic book publisher owned by DC Entertainment, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery. DC is an initialism for "Detective Comics", an American comic book seri ...

character who is a fragment of Metamorpho * Shift (Marvel Comics), a

Marvel Comics Marvel Comics is a New York City–based comic book publishing, publisher, a property of the Walt Disney Company since December 31, 2009, and a subsidiary of Disney Publishing Worldwide since March 2023. Marvel was founded in 1939 by Martin G ...

character who is a clone of Miles Morales

Music

* ''Shift'' (Nasum album), 2004 * Shift (The Living End album) * Shift (music), a change of level in music * Shift (string technique), a finger movement from one position to another on the same string

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

* ''Shift'' (magazine), a former Canadian technology and culture magazine * Shift (MSNBC), an online live-streaming video network * ''Shift'' (sculpture), an outdoor sculpture by American artist Richard Serra located in King City, Ontario, Canada

Business

* Shift work, an employment practice * Shift Technologies (online marketplace), a defunct American online marketplace for used cars * SHIFT (company), a German company producing the Shiftphone * SHIFT Inc., a Japanese software testing company

Linguistics

* Language shift, the process in which a community of speakers shift to speaking a different language * Shifting (syntax), a syntactic process * Sound shift, also known as sound shifting or sound change ** Vowel shift

Mathematics and computing

* Barrel shifter, a digital circuit implementing bit shifts * Bit shift, an operation treating a value as a sequence of binary digits ** Arithmetic shift ** Circular shift, often used in cryptography ** Logical shift * Shift key, a key on a computer or typewriter keyboard * Shift operator, a linear operator in mathematics

Sports

* Shift (ice hockey), a group of players in ice hockey * Infield shift, a defensive alignment in baseball and softball

Other uses

* Shift (clothing), a simple kind of undergarment or dress * Shift (weapon), an improvised knife used as a weapon * Gear shift, a lever to change gear in a vehicle * Paradigm shift, a change in basic assumptions within the ruling theory of science * Blueshift, any decrease in wavelength, with a corresponding increase in frequency, of an electromagnetic wave * Redshift, a phenomenon that occurs when light seen coming from an object that is moving away is proportionally increased in wavelength, or shifted, to the red end of the spectrum * Shapeshifting, a common theme in mythology, folklore, and fairy tales * Shift vector, in ADM formalism of General Relativity * Shifting, Hiberno-English slang for making out * Tax shift, a fiscal policy