Barrier

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A barrier or barricade is a physical structure which blocks or impedes something.

Barrier may also refer to:

Places

  • Barrier, Kentucky, a community in the United States
  • Barrier, Voerendaal, a place in the municipality of Voerendaal, Netherlands
  • Barrier Bay, an open bay in Antarctica
  • Barrier Canyon, the former name of Horseshoe Canyon (Utah)
  • Barrier Lake, Alberta, Canada
  • Barrier Mountain, the former name of Mount Baldy (Alberta)
  • Barrier Ranges, a mountain range in New South Wales, Australia
  • Division of Barrier, a former Australian Electoral Division in New South Wales
  • The Barrier, a common synonym for the city of Broken Hill, New South Wales
  • The Barrier Miner, the city's newspaper
  • Barrier Highway, in Australia, from SA to NSW via Broken Hill
  • The Barrier, a lava dam in British Columbia, Canada
  • The Barrier (Kenya), an active shield volcano in Kenya
  • The Barrier, an early name for the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica

In arts and entertainment

Film

  • The Barrier (1917 film), a lost 1917 American silent drama film
  • The Barrier (1926 film), a silent film
  • The Barrier (1937 film), an American film
  • Barrier (film), a 1966 Polish film, released in the U.S. as Barrier
  • The Barrier (1972 film) [ro], an Egyptian film; see Gheorghe Dinică
  • The Barrier (1979 film), a Bulgarian film
  • The Barrier (1990 film), a Bahraini film

Games

  • Barrier (video game), a 1979 arcade game by Vectorbeam

Music

  • Barriers (album), by Frank Iero (2019)
  • "Barrier", a 1985 song by Simon Townshend on the album Moving Target
  • "Barriers", a song by Suede on their 2013 album Bloodsports
  • "Barrier", a track from the soundtrack of the 2015 video game Undertale by Toby Fox

Television

  • Barriers (TV series), a UK television series
  • The Barrier (TV series), a 2020 Spanish-language dystopian drama TV series

Other uses

  • Barrier (surname)
  • Barrier (computer science), a type of synchronization in parallel computing
  • Barrier (video game), a 1979 maze arcade game
  • Barrier Air, a New Zealand airline
  • Barrier cream, hand cream
  • USS Barrier, a minesweeper in the U.S. Navy

See also

  • Concrete barrier (disambiguation)
  • Great Barrier (disambiguation)
  • All pages with titles containing Barrier
  • Barrière (disambiguation)
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