Belly Explained

Belly may refer to:

Anatomy

• The abdomen, the part of the body between the pelvis and the thorax; or the stomach
  • A beer belly, an overhang of fat above the waist, presumed to be caused by regular beer drinking
  • Belly dance
• The fleshy, central part of a skeletal muscle (also known as a "muscle belly")

People

• The nickname of the England cricketer Ian Bell
• Leon-August-Adolphe Belly, a 19th-century French painter
• Pierre Belly (1738–1814), Louisiana planter, lawyer and judge
• Belly Mujinga (1972/3–2020), Congolese-born transport worker who died in London from COVID-19

Places

• Belly River, river in Alberta, Canada

Music

• Belly (band), An American Alternative Rock band
• Belly (rapper) (born 1984), Canadian rap artist of Palestinian origin
• Lead Belly (1889–1949), real name Huddie William Ledbetter, American folk and blues musician
• Belly, an EP by The Beast
• The surface of a sound board, of a string instrument
• A kind of steelpan

Other

• Belly (loyalty program), a digital loyalty program for small businesses
• Belly (film), a 1998 film
  • Belly (soundtrack), a 1998 soundtrack album of the film
• The draft, in a sail
• Tuna, belly (fatty tuna), also known as toro, used in Japanese food
• Belly landing, of an aircraft when it crashes onto a runway with its undercarriage retracted

See also

• Belley (disambiguation)