Belt

Belt or The Belt may refer to:

Apparel

 * Belt (clothing), a leather or fabric band worn around the waist
 * Championship belt, a type of trophy used primarily in combat sports
 * Colored belts, such as a black belt or red belt, worn by martial arts practitioners to signify rank in the kyū ranking system

Geology

 * Orogenic belt
 * Greenstone belt
 * A large-scale linear or curved array or belt of igneous rocks (e.g. Transscandinavian Igneous Belt)
 * A large-scale linear or curved array of mineral deposits (e.g. Bolivian tin belt)
 * Paired metamorphic belts

Mechanical and vehicular

 * Belt (mechanical), a looped strip of material used to link multiple rotating shafts
 * Conveyor belt, a device for transporting goods along a fixed track
 * Belt manlift, a device for moving people between floors in a building or grain elevator.
 * Seat belt, a safety device in automobiles and on the plane
 * Timing belt, part of an internal combustion engine
 * Serpentine belt, move accessories of a combustion engine.
 * Belt track, a type of track used on Caterpillar-style vehicles
 * Belt armor, a layer of heavy metal armor plated onto or within the outer hulls of warships
 * Belt (firearms), a type of ammunition used in light machine guns, like the M240 and Mk 48.
 * Steel belt, a type of conveyor belt

Places

 * Belt, North Holland
 * Belt, Montana, United States
 * Belt Parkway, a series of highways around New York City, United States
 * Danish belts, several straits in and around Denmark:
 * Great Belt
 * Little Belt
 * Fehmarn Belt
 * Any of several informally defined elongated regions of the United States and elsewhere
 * Belts, Yiddish name of Bălți, Moldova
 * Il-Belt, Maltese name of Valletta, Malta

Astronomy

 * Asteroid belt, a region of the solar system between Mars and Jupiter
 * Gould Belt, a partial ring of stars representing the local spiral arm to which the Sun belongs
 * Kuiper belt, a region of the solar system beyond the orbit of Neptune
 * Orion's Belt

People with the surname

 * Thomas Belt (1832–1878), English geologist and naturalist
 * Francis Walter Belt (1862–1938), Australian naval commander, lawyer, and explorer
 * Philip Belt (1927–2015), American piano builder
 * Brandon Belt (born 1988), American baseball player
 * Dustin Belt (born 1987), American musician, producer, and actor

Other uses

 * Belting (music), a singing technique
 * The Belt (film), a 1989 erotic drama film
 * The Belt (album), an album by In the Valley Below
 * Judas belt, a firework
 * Green belt, a policy and land use designation used in land use planning
 * Belt problem, a mathematics problem
 * Belt Supergroup, a group of Mesoproterozoic sedimentary rocks
 * Belt Publishing, an American publisher