Shelter

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Shelters

Shelter refers to a, typically basic structure or building that covers or provides protection, including the following:

Protection from the weather

• Dugout (shelter), a primitive house made by digging a hole in the ground
• Mountain shelter or hut
• Public transport stops, such as:
  • Bus shelter
  • Tram stop
  • Railway platform
  • Taxi stand
• Shack
• Shelter half, a military tent used in Australia and UK
• Typhoon shelter, protects boats from typhoons

Places of refuge

• Animal shelter for stray pets
• Emergency shelter from natural disasters, etc.
• Homeless shelter for vagrants
• Women's shelter for abused women

War related

• Air-raid shelter
• Fallout shelter
• Blast shelter
• Refugee shelter
• Tent city
• Hardened Aircraft Shelter

Groups or organisations

• Shelter (band), an American krishnacore band
• Shelter Centre, an NGO supporting humanitarian shelter
• Shelter (charity), a British charity campaigning to end homelessness and bad housing
• Shelter (church), a christian church in california
• Shelter Don Bosco, an organization working for Street Children in Mumbai, India
• Shelter Insurance, a US mutual insurance company
• Shelter Records, a record label

Transportation

• Shelter (automobile), a Dutch experimental city car of the 1950s..

Geological

• Rock shelter

Media

• "Gimme Shelter", a 1969 song by The Rolling Stones
• Shelter (1998 film), a 1998 film starring John Allen Nelson
• Shelter (2007 film), a 2007 film starring Brad Rowe
• Shelter (book), a novel by Susan Palwick published by Tor in 2007.
• Shelter (musical)
• "Shelter (song)"

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