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'''Loop''' or '''LOOP''' may refer to:

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==Brands and enterprises==
* [[Loop (mobile)]], a Bulgarian virtual network operator and co-founder of [[Loop Live]]
* Loop, clothing, a company founded by Carlos Vasquez in the 1990s and worn by [[Digable Planets]]
* [[Loop Mobile]], an Indian mobile phone operator
* [[Loop Internet]], an internet service provider in Pennsylvania, United States
* Loop, a reusable container program announced in 2019 by [[TerraCycle]]

==Geography==
* [[Loop, Germany]], a municipality in Schleswig-Holstein
* [[Loop (Texarkana)]], a roadway loop around Texarkana, Arkansas, United States
* [[Loop, Blair County, Pennsylvania]], United States
* [[Loop, Indiana County, Pennsylvania]], United States
* [[Loop, West Virginia]], United States
* [[Loop 101]], a semi-beltway of the Phoenix Metropolitan Area
* [[Loop 202]], a semi-beltway of the Phoenix Metropolitan Area
* [[Loop 303]], a semi-beltway of the Phoenix Metropolitan Area
* [[Chicago Loop]], the downtown neighborhood of Chicago bounded by the elevated railway The Loop
** [[Loop Retail Historic District]], a shopping district in the Chicago Loop
* [[Delmar Loop]], an entertainment district in St. Louis, Missouri
* [[London Outer Orbital Path]] (LOOP), a signed walk around the edge of Outer London, England
* [[Louisiana Offshore Oil Port]] (LOOP), a deep-water port in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana

==People==
* [[Call Me Loop]] (born 1991), English singer and songwriter
* [[Liza Loop]] (active from 1975), American technology pioneer
* [[Uno Loop]] (1930&ndash;2021), Estonian singer, musician, athlete, actor, and educator
* Victoria Loop, brass and guitar player with English band [[Half Man Half Biscuit]]
* Steven [[Tyler Loop]], American football player

==Arts, entertainment, and media==

===Film===
* [[Loop (1997 film)|''Loop'' (1991 film)]], a British romantic comedy
* [[Loop (1999 film)|''Loop'' (1999 film)]], a Venezuelan film
* [[Loop (2020 film)|''Loop'' (2020 film)]], an American animated short
* Film loop, the slack portion of the film around the projector lens in a [[movie projector#Film loop|movie projector]]
* [[Porn loop]], an 8 or 16&nbsp;mm video "short" of a pornographic nature that could be purchased from men's magazines starting in the 1950s

===Music===

====Groups====
* [[Loop (band)]], a London rock band

====Other uses in music====
* [[Loop (album)|''Loop'' (album)]], a 2002 album by Keller Williams
* [[Loop (music)]], a finite element of sound which is repeated by technical means
* [[Loop (Maaya Sakamoto song)|"Loop" (Maaya Sakamoto song)]], 2005
* [[Loop (Sarah Bonnici song)|"Loop" (Sarah Bonnici song)]], the entry for Malta in the Eurovision Song Contest 2024
* ''Loop'', a 2020 mini-album by [[Peakboy]]

===Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media===
* [[Loop (novel)|''Loop'' (novel)]], a novel in the ''Ring'' series by Koji Suzuki
* [[LOOP Barcelona]], an annual meeting point for video art in Barcelona, Spain

==Computing and technology==
* [[Loop (computing)]], a method of control flow in computer science
* [[LOOP (programming language)]], the pedagogical primitive recursive programming language with bounded loops
* [[Loop (telecommunication)]], sending a signal on a channel and receiving it back at the sending terminal
* [[Audio induction loop]], an aid for the hard of hearing
* [[Local loop]], the physical link in telephony that links the customer premises to the telephone company (telco)
* [[Loop device]], a Unix device node that allows a file to be mounted as if it were a device
* LOOPS, the object system for [[Interlisp]]-D
* [[continue statement|''continue'' statement]] (in some languages ''skip'', ''cycle'', ''next'', ''loop'', or ''iterate''), a structured control statement that skips ahead to the next iteration of the loop containing it
* [[Microsoft Loop]], collaborative software

==Mathematics==
* [[Loop (algebra)]], a quasigroup with an identity element
* [[Loop (graph theory)]], an edge that begins and ends on the same vertex
* [[Loop (topology)]], a path that starts and ends at the same point, possibly reduced to a single point

==Sports==
* Aerobatic loop, a type of [[aerobatic maneuver]]
* [[Ground loop (aviation)]], a rapid horizontal (yawing) rotation of a fixed-wing aircraft used in emergencies to bleed of energy while landing
* Loop, a type of [[canoe freestyle#Moves|canoe freestyle maneuver]]
* [[Loop (cricket)]], an aspect of bowling in cricket
* [[Loop jump]], a figure skating jump
* Loop, a type of [[table tennis#Loop|offensive shot in table tennis]]

==Roller coasters==
* [[Loop (roller coaster)]], a basic roller coaster inversion
* [[Pretzel loop]], a roller coaster element

==Transportation==
* [[Loop (Amtrak train)|''Loop'' (Amtrak train)]], a discontinued Amtrak train
* [[The Loop (CTA)]], a rapid transit section bounding Chicago's Loop neighborhood
* Loop, underground public transportation system of [[The Boring Company]] in Tesla cars, including a proposed DC-to-Baltimore system
* [[Balloon loop]], a section of track that allows reversal of direction without stopping
* [[Circle route]], a public transport route that travels around and connecting the peripheral zones of an area.
* [[Loop line (railway)]], a branch line that deviates from a direct route and rejoins it at another location
* [[Loop route]], a main route or highway that forms a closed loop
* [[Passing loop]], a short section of track that allows trains to pass on a single track route
* [[Ring road]] or loop, a main route or highway that encircles a town or city
* [[Spiral (railway)]], a section of track that allows a train to climb a steep hill

==Other uses==
* [[Compulsion loop]], a habitual chain of activities that will be repeated by the user to cause them to continue the activity
* [[Loop (biochemistry)]], a flexible region in a protein's secondary structure
* [[Loop (education)]], the process of advancing an elementary school teacher with his or her class
* [[Loop (knot)]], one of the fundamental structures used to tie knots
* Loop, the end of some [[dead-end street]]s
* Loop, a type of [[fingerprint#Classifying fingerprints|fingerprint]] pattern

==See also==
* {{Look from|Loop}}
* {{In title|Loop}}
* [[The Loop (disambiguation)]]
* [[Circle]]
* [[Cycle (disambiguation)]]
* [[Cycle graph]]
* [[Electronic circuit]]
* [[Hoop (disambiguation)]]
* [[Inner loop (disambiguation)]]
* [[Line echo wave pattern]] (LEWP)
* [[Loophole]]
* [[Looping (disambiguation)]]
* [[Loopy (disambiguation)]]
* [[Loupe]], a small magnifying glass used by jewelers, watchmakers, and other precision craftsmen
* {{Section link|Media control symbols#Symbols}}
* [[Möbius strip]]
* [[Ring (disambiguation)]]

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