Barrier

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), 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)