Hold

Hold may refer to:

Physical spaces

 * Hold (compartment), interior cargo space
 * Baggage hold, cargo space on an airplane
 * Stronghold, a castle or other fortified place

Arts, entertainment, and media

 * Hold (musical term), a pause, also called a Fermata
 * Hold (album), 2023 album by Wild Nothing
 * "Hold" (song), a song by Vera Blue
 * "Hold", a song by Axium from Blindsided
 * "Hold", a song by Saves the Day from I'm Sorry I'm Leaving
 * Hold, in a card game (e.g., blackjack or poker, the cards that are kept in a hand, not those discarded and replaced
 * Handhold (dance), a type of hold in dance
 * Hold (novel) a novel by Michael Donkor

Law

 * Legal hold, a legal ruling or official declaration
 * Senate hold, a US parliamentary procedure

Sports

 * Hold (baseball), a statistic that may be awarded to a relief pitcher
 * Climbing hold, on climbing walls
 * Grappling hold, a specific grip applied to an opponent in wrestling or martial arts

Technology

 * Hold (aviation), a manoeuvre designed to delay an aircraft already in flight while keeping it within a specified airspace
 * Hold (telephone), a condition wherein a call is not terminated, but the connection is held and no speech can take place
 * Authorization hold, a now common practice by bankers and retailers (especially gas stations)

Other uses

 * Hold (title), an ancient Anglo-Danish and Norwegian title
 * holD, a bacterial gene
 * Hold or on hold, library books or other borrowed materials reserved for a particular borrower's use
 * Marianne Hold (1933–1994), German actress
 * Trevor Hold (1939-2004), English composer, poet and author