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Refuge is a place or state of safety. It may also refer to a more specific meaning:
Safety
- Area of refuge, a location in a building that may be used by occupants in the event of a fire
 - Bunker, a defensive fortification designed to protect people from bombs or other attacks
 - Mountain hut, a shelter for travelers in mountainous areas, often remote
 - Women's refuge, another term for women's shelter
 - Refuge (United Kingdom charity), a British charity for female victims of domestic violence
 - A place intended to shelter cultural property, in the context of the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict
 - Right of asylum, protection of a person persecuted for political or religious beliefs by another sovereign authority
 - Refuge (bridges), a recess or bay in the parapet providing safety to pedestrians.
 
Nature and biology
- Wildlife refuge, a sanctuary or protected area for wildlife
 - Refuge (ecology), a place where an organism can escape from predation
 - Refugium (population biology), a location of an isolated or relict population of a previously more widespread species
 - Refuge crop, a non-genetically modified food crop planted alongside a genetically modified one to prevent or slow the development of predators resistant to its modified properties by purposely encouraging the mating of species across said crops
 
Film and television
- Refuge (1923 film), an American silent drama film
 - Refuge (1928 film) or Escape, a German silent film
 - The Refuge (film), a 2009 French drama directed by François Ozon
 - Refuge (2012 film), an American drama directed by Jessica Goldberg
 - Refuge: Stories of the Selfhelp Home, a 2012 American documentary by Ethan Bensinger
 - "Refuge" (Law & Order), a television episode
 - "The Refuge" (The Outer Limits), a television episode
 
Literature
- The Refuge (novel), a 1954 novel by Kenneth Mackenzie
 - Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place, a 1991 book by Terry Tempest Williams
 - Isaac Asimov's Robot City: Refuge, a 1988 novel by Rob Chilson
 
Music
- Refuge (band), a side project of the German band Rage
 - Refuge Records, a 1980s American record label
 - Refuge (EP) or the title song, by Rage, 1994
 - Refuge (Sons of Korah album), by Sons of Korah, 2014
 - Refuge OST, by Carbon Based Lifeforms, 2013
 - "Refuge", a song by Psy from 4X2=8, 2017
 - "Refuge", a song by Steve Wilson from To the Bone, 2017
 
Other uses
- Refuge, Mississippi
 - Refuge, Texas, an unincorporated community in Houston County, Texas
 - Eustache de Refuge (1564–1617), Early Modern French courtier, statesman and author
 - A controversial evangelical Christian, "ex-gay" conversion therapy program for homosexual teenagers run by Love In Action
 - Refuge (Buddhism), the basis of being a Buddhist
 
See also
- Refugium (disambiguation)
 - Refugee (disambiguation)
 - City of Refuge (disambiguation)
 - All pages with titles beginning with Refuge
 
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