Backbone Explained

Backbone may refer to:

• Vertebral column, core part of the axial skeleton in vertebrate animals

Arts, entertainment, and media

Film

• Backbone (1923 film), a 1923 lost silent film starring Alfred Lunt
• Backbone (1975 film), a 1975 Yugoslavian drama directed by Vlatko Gilić

Music

Albums

• Backbones (album), a 2004 Wishbone Ash compilation album
• Backbone (Backbone album), 1998
• Backbone (Boney James album), 1993
• Backbone (Roam album), 2016
• Backbone (Anthony Callea album), 2016
• Backbone (Status Quo album), 2019
• Backbone (Kasey Chambers album), 2024

Songs

• "At the End of the Day / Backbone", 1993 song by Baby Animals
• "Backbone", 2005 song by Gojira from the album From Mars to Sirius
• "Backbone" (Chase & Status and Stormzy song), 2024 song by Chase & Status and Stormzy
• "Backbone" (Daughtry song), 2018 song by American rock band Daughtry

Other music

• Backbone, a rock band led by former Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann

Other arts, entertainment, and media

• Backbone (solitaire), a solitaire game
• Backbone (magazine), a Canadian business magazine
• Backbone One (gaming device), a hardware and software platform
• Tails Noir, a 2021 indie video game known as Backbone until 2023
• Backbone Entertainment, a video game development company

Places

• Backbone, Virginia, US
• European backbone, or "Blue Banana", a geographic corridor of urbanisation in Western Europe
• Backbone State Park, oldest state park in Iowa, US

Science and technology

• Backbone chain, in polymer chemistry, the framework of the molecule
• Backbone network, the top level of a hierarchical computer network
• Internet backbone, principal data routes between interconnected networks and core routers in the Internet
• Backbone.js, a JavaScript library used to build applications

Other uses

• Backbone (British radio communications network)