Cage

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A cage (enclosure) is a structure made of mesh, bars or wires, used to confine, contain or protect something. Examples include:

• Batting cage, an enclosure for baseball players to practice batting
• Bottle cage, a bicycle accessory used to affix a water bottle to a bike
• Cage (BDSM), an enclosure used to confine a submissive in BDSM
• Casino cage, the location where chips are exchanged to or from cash in a casino
• Faraday cage, an enclosure formed by conducting material
• Human rib cage, a part of the human skeleton within the thoracic area
• Roll cage, a specially constructed frame built in or around the cab of a vehicle to protect the occupants from injury
• Shark proof cage, used by scuba divers to examine sharks with better safely

Cage may also refer to:

Music and dance

• John Cage, a very influential American composer
• Cage (rapper), Chris Palko, an American hip hop artist
• Cage (band), an American heavy metal band
• "Cage" (song), a single the Japanese rock band Dir en grey
• "La Cage" (song), the 1969 debut single by Jean-Michel Jarre
• Byron Cage, an African-American gospel recording artist
• Jerome Robbins' 1951 The Cage (ballet)

People

• "Christian Cage", ring name of Jason Reso, a Canadian-American professional wrestler
• David Cage, the founder of videogame development studio Quantic Dream
• John Cage, an experimental composer
• Matt Cage, an American professional wrestler
• Michael Cage, a former NBA basketball player
• Nicolas Cage, American actor
• Shá Cage, a professional actor, playwright, poet and producer originally from Natchez, Mississippi
• Steven Cage, a member of the Conservative Party of Canada
• Stuart Cage, an English golfer

Fiction

• Cage, a 1989 action film and its 1994 sequel, Cage II, both starring Reb Brown and Lou Ferrigno
• "Cage" (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit), an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
• John Cage (character), a fictional character in the television show Ally McBeal
• Johnny Cage, a fictional character from the Mortal Kombat series of video games
• Luke Cage, a fictional character portrayed in Marvel Comics
• Xander Cage, the protagonist in the film xXx, starring Vin Diesel
• Cage Midwell, the protagonist of the video game Zone of the Enders: The Fist of Mars

Acronyms

• Commercial and Government Entity
• CAGE questionnaire, a screening tool for determining alcoholism.
• Cap analysis gene expression, a molecular biology technique
• A framework for Cultural, Administrative and Political, Geographical, and Economical analysis of Psychical distance in business

Abstract concepts

• Cage (graph theory), a regular graph in graph theory with the fewest vertices for a given girth and degree
• Iron cage, a concept introduced by Max Weber

See also

• The Cage

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