Refuge

Refuge is a place or state of safety. It may also refer to a more specific meaning:

Safety

 * Area of refuge, a location in a building that may be used by occupants in the event of a fire
 * Bunker, a defensive fortification designed to protect people from bombs or other attacks
 * Mountain hut, a shelter for travelers in mountainous areas, often remote
 * Women's refuge, another term for women's shelter
 * Refuge (United Kingdom charity), a British charity for female victims of domestic violence
 * A place intended to shelter cultural property, in the context of the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict
 * Right of asylum, protection of a person persecuted for political or religious beliefs by another sovereign authority
 * Refuge (bridges), a recess or bay in the parapet providing safety to pedestrians.

Nature and biology

 * Wildlife refuge, a sanctuary or protected area for wildlife
 * Refuge (ecology), a place where an organism can escape from predation
 * Refugium (population biology), a location of an isolated or relict population of a previously more widespread species
 * Refuge crop, a non-genetically modified food crop planted alongside a genetically modified one to prevent or slow the development of predators resistant to its modified properties by purposely encouraging the mating of species across said crops

Film and television

 * Refuge (1923 film), an American silent drama film
 * Refuge (1928 film) or Escape, a German silent film
 * The Refuge (film), a 2009 French drama directed by François Ozon
 * Refuge (2012 film), an American drama directed by Jessica Goldberg
 * Refuge: Stories of the Selfhelp Home, a 2012 American documentary by Ethan Bensinger
 * "Refuge" (Law & Order), a television episode
 * "The Refuge" (The Outer Limits), a television episode

Literature

 * The Refuge (novel), a 1954 novel by Kenneth Mackenzie
 * Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place, a 1991 book by Terry Tempest Williams
 * Isaac Asimov's Robot City: Refuge, a 1988 novel by Rob Chilson

Music

 * Refuge (band), a side project of the German band Rage
 * Refuge Records, a 1980s American record label
 * Refuge (EP) or the title song, by Rage, 1994
 * Refuge (Sons of Korah album), by Sons of Korah, 2014
 * Refuge OST, by Carbon Based Lifeforms, 2013
 * "Refuge", a song by Psy from 4X2=8, 2017
 * "Refuge", a song by Steve Wilson from To the Bone, 2017

Other uses

 * Refuge, Mississippi
 * Refuge, Texas, an unincorporated community in Houston County, Texas
 * Eustache de Refuge (1564–1617), Early Modern French courtier, statesman and author
 * A controversial evangelical Christian, "ex-gay" conversion therapy program for homosexual teenagers run by Love In Action
 * Refuge (Buddhism), the basis of being a Buddhist