Backbone

Backbone may refer to:


 * Vertebral column, core part of the axial skeleton in vertebrate animals

Film

 * Backbone (1923 film), a 1923 lost silent film starring Alfred Lunt
 * Backbone (1975 film), a 1975 Yugoslavian drama directed by Vlatko Gilić

Albums

 * Backbones (album), a 2004 Wishbone Ash compilation album
 * Backbone (Backbone album), 1998
 * Backbone (Boney James album), 1993
 * Backbone (Roam album), 2016
 * Backbone (Anthony Callea album), 2016
 * Backbone (Status Quo album), 2019

Songs

 * "At the End of the Day / Backbone", 1993 song by Baby Animals
 * "Backbone", 2005 song by Gojira from the album From Mars to Sirius
 * "Backbone" (Daughtry song), 2018 song by American rock band Daughtry

Other music

 * Backbone, a rock band led by former Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann

Other arts, entertainment, and media

 * Backbone (solitaire), a solitaire game
 * Backbone (magazine), a Canadian business magazine
 * Backbone One (gaming device), a hardware and software platform
 * Tails Noir, a 2021 indie video game known as Backbone until 2023
 * Backbone Entertainment, a video game development company

Places

 * Backbone, Virginia, US
 * European backbone, or "Blue Banana", a geographic corridor of urbanisation in Western Europe
 * Backbone State Park, oldest state park in Iowa, US

Science and technology

 * Backbone chain, in polymer chemistry, the framework of the molecule
 * Backbone network, the top level of a hierarchical computer network
 * Internet backbone, principal data routes between interconnected networks and core routers in the Internet
 * Backbone.js, a JavaScript library used to build applications

Other uses

 * Backbone (British radio communications network)