Shelter

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

Protection from the weather

• House
• Mountain shelter or hut
• Shack
• Public transport stops, such as:
  • Bus shelter
  • Tram stop
  • Railway platform
  • Taxi stand

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 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

• Shelter (book), a novel by Susan Palwick published by Tor in 2007.
• Shelter (film), a 1998 film starring John Allen Nelson