Gore Explained
Gore may refer to:
Places
Australia
Canada
United Kingdom
United States
- Gore, Georgia, an unincorporated community
- Gore, Missouri, an unincorporated community
- Gore, Ohio, an unincorporated community
- Gore, Oklahoma, a town
- Gore, Virginia, an unincorporated community
- Gore Canyon, Colorado
- Gore Creek (Colorado)
- Gore Mountain (New York)
- Gore Mountain (Vermont)
- Gore Range, Colorado
- Goretown, South Carolina, an unincorporated community
- Junction City, Kentucky, formerly known as Gore
- "The Gore", southeast Indiana, a nickname for part of the former Northwest Territory ceded from Ohio to Indiana in 1803, originally Dearborn County
- Gore Township, Michigan
Elsewhere
- Gorë, a former municipality in Korçë County, Albania
- Goré, Chad, a town
- Gore District, Upper Canada, an historical district of Upper Canada, now the province of Ontario, Canada
- Gore District, New Zealand, a district in the Southland region of the South Island of New Zealand
- Gore, Ethiopia, a town
- Gore Island (Baja California), Mexico
People
- Gore (given name), including a list of notable people with the given name
- Gore (surname), including a list of notable people with the surname
- Al Gore (born 1948), American politician and environmentalist
- Gore, family name of the Earls of Arran in the Peerage of Ireland
- Gore baronets, in the Baronetage of Ireland
- Gregor Gore Verbinski (born 1964), American film director, screenwriter, producer and musician
- Gore Vidal (1925–2012), American writer
Arts, entertainment, and media
Fictional places
- Gore, a mythical place mentioned in the Arthurian legend, ruled by King Urien and probably based on the historical kingdom of Rheged
- The Gore, a fictional place in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
Music
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
- General Gore (character), fictional character in the film Friend of the World by Brian Patrick Butler
- Gore (film), a cancelled biographical film about Gore Vidal
- , a 2002 first-person shooter video game
- The Unseen (novel), a horror-mystery novel by Joseph Citro, also known as The Gore
- Splatter film, a horror genre also known as "gore film"
- Gore, colloquial term for recordings of graphic violence
Textiles
- Gore (fabrics), a triangular piece of cloth used in dress making or hat making
- Gore-Tex, a fabric made by W. L. Gore and Associates
- W. L. Gore and Associates, maker of Gore-Tex fabrics and other industrial products
Other uses
- Gore (heraldry), a roughly triangular charge upon a shield in a coat of arms
- Gore (road), a narrow, triangular area of land often found at road merges and diverges
- Gore (segment), an (often triangular) sector of a curved surface as used to make globes and balloons
- Gore (surveying), a narrow usually triangular strip of land
- , a British frigate which served in the Royal Navy from 1943 to 1946
- Striking spear, or The Gore, a wrestling attack move used by Rhyno
See also