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Loop may refer to:

Loop (knot), one of the fundamental structures used to tie knots
Loop (electricity), an electronic circuit
Induction loop, a device used for communications and detection
Strange loop, arises when, by moving up or down through a hierarchical system, one finds oneself back where one started
Wilson loop (theoretical physics), a closed path integral of the gauge field
Telecommunications
- Loop (telecommunication), sending a signal on a channel and receiving it back at the sending terminal
- Local loop, the link connecting the customer to the carrier
- Loop antenna, a radio antenna composed of one or more turns of conductor

Loop, a type of fingerprint pattern
Loop (biochemistry), a flexible region in a protein's secondary structure
Loop of Henle, a portion of the kidney
- Loop diuretics, diuretics that act on the ascending loop of Henle

Control flow loop, a sequence of commands that is executed repeatedly
- For loop, a programming language statement which allows code to be repeatedly executed
- Event loop, a loop that listens to and dispatches events/messages
Infinite loop, a sequence of instructions in a computer program which loops endlessly
Loop device (Unix), a device node that allows a file to be mounted on a directory

Loop (cricket), a bowler makes the ball rise above eye-level in the early part of its trajectory toward the batsman
Loop jump (figure skating), a jump that takes off from a back outside edge and lands on the same edge
Loop (aircraft), an aerobatic maneuver
Loop (roller coaster), the most basic of roller coaster inversions
A loop drive in table tennis, "The Loop" is an extreme topspin drive that produces a loopy trajectory
A loop in playboating, a maneuver where the kayaker does a full forwards flip in the air

Railway
- Passing loop, or crossing loop, a track configuration
- Balloon loop, one of several looping track configurations
- The Loop (CTA), an elevated railway in Chicago, Illinois
- Toronto streetcar loops, a track configuration on the termini of streetcar lines in Toronto
Roadway
- Loop route, a main route or highway that forms a closed loop
- Loop, see ring road, a main route or highway that forms a closed loop
- Loop (Texarkana), a roadway loop proposed around Texarkana, Arkansas
- Loop 101, 202 and 303 are the names of three circumferential semi-beltways of the Phoenix Metropolitan Area in Arizona.
- Loop ramp, a part of a cloverleaf interchange that allows executing a left turn via a 270 degree right-hand turn

Music loop, a finite element of sound which is repeated by technical means
In animation, a loop is a sequence of drawings repeated over and over
In a movie projector, the loop refers to the slack portion of the film around the projector lens

Loop current, an ocean current in the Gulf of Mexico, part of the Gulf Stream
Loop, Germany, a municipality in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Chicago Loop, the downtown neighbourhood of Chicago, Illinois bounded by the elevated railway The Loop (CTA)
Loop Retail Historic District, National Register of Historic Places shopping district in the Chicago Loop
Delmar Loop, entertainment district in St. Louis, Missouri
Louisiana Offshore Oil Port, a deepwater port in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana