Shape (disambiguation)

Shape is the characteristic surface configuration of a thing; an outline or contour.

Shape may also refer to:

Fictional characters

• Michael Myers (Halloween), or The Shape, a fictional character from the Halloween horror film franchise
• Shape (comics), a fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe
• The Shape Japer, a villain in the BBC television series Numberjacks

Media

• Shape (magazine), a fitness magazine
• The Shape (book), a 2000 poetry collection by Dejan Stojanović
• "Shapes" (The X-Files), an episode of the TV series The X-Files

Art

• Shape (visual arts), a flat, enclosed area of an artwork

Music

Performers

• The Shapes (UK band), a 1970s punk rock band
• The Shapes, a UK experimental pop band fronted by Micachu
• The Shapes (US band), a 2000s American band that wrote and performed the theme song for the TV series Dallas SWAT

Albums

• Shape (album), a 1996 album by Frente!
• Shapes (album), a 1997 album by Polvo
• Shapes, a 1994 album by Greg Howard

Songs

• "Shape" (song), a song by Sugababes
• "Shape", a song by Joe Morris from Singularity
• "Shapes", a song by The Long Winters from When I Pretend to Fall
• "The Shape", a song by Slipknot from Iowa

Companies and organizations

• Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE), the central command of NATO military forces, Casteau, Belgium
• SHAPE America, working name of the Society of Health and Physical Educators, American organisation
• SHAPE Services, a German software vendor
• Shape Arts or simply Shape, a charity funded by Arts Council England

Food

• Arnott's Shapes, a line of snack foods
• Blancmange or shape, a sweet dessert

Other

• Shape (Go), a description of positional qualities of a group of stones in the game of Go
• SHAPE (molecular biology), Selective 2'-hydroxyl acylation analyzed by primer extension, a chemical-based RNA structure determination experiment
• Social Sciences, Humanities and the Arts for People and the Economy (SHAPE), an acronym for these academic disciplines
• Spectro-polarimetry of Habitable Planet Earth (SHAPE), scientific instrument onboard propulsion module of Chandrayaan-3
• shape parameter a kind of numerical parameter for a parametric family of probability distributions

See also

• Shapefile, a geospatial vector data format for geographic information systems software
• Shape extension, in the X/Window System
• Shape:UK or Shapeshifters, a 2000s-2010s house music production duo
• The Shapes Project, an art project by Allan McCollum
• All pages with titles beginning with Shape
• All pages with titles containing Shape