ship A ship is a large watercraft, vessel that travels the world's oceans and other Waterway, navigable waterways, carrying cargo or passengers, or in support of specialized missions, such as defense, research and fishing. Ships are generally disti ...

is a large vessel that floats on water, specifically the ocean and the sea. Ship or ships may also refer to:

Transportation

Shipping Freight transport, also referred to as freight forwarding, is the physical process of transporting commodities and merchandise goods and cargo. The term shipping originally referred to transport by sea but in American English, it has been ...

, basic process of transporting goods and cargo *

Full-rigged ship A full-rigged ship or fully rigged ship is a sailing ship, sailing vessel with a sail plan of three or more mast (sailing), masts, all of them square rig, square-rigged. Such a vessel is said to have a ship rig or be ship-rigged, with each mas ...

, known as "ship" in the Age of Sail *

Spacecraft A spacecraft is a vehicle that is designed spaceflight, to fly and operate in outer space. Spacecraft are used for a variety of purposes, including Telecommunications, communications, Earth observation satellite, Earth observation, Weather s ...

or spaceship, to travel in outer space * Starship, spacecraft designed for interstellar travel *

Airship An airship, dirigible balloon or dirigible is a type of aerostat (lighter-than-air) aircraft that can navigate through the air flying powered aircraft, under its own power. Aerostats use buoyancy from a lifting gas that is less dense than the ...

, powered lighter-than-air craft * Landship, watercraft-style large terrestrial land vehicle

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

* Ship (comics), the Marvel Comics AI used by Apocalypse, X-Factor, and Cable *

Ship A ship is a large watercraft, vessel that travels the world's oceans and other Waterway, navigable waterways, carrying cargo or passengers, or in support of specialized missions, such as defense, research and fishing. Ships are generally disti ...

, a Galvanic Mechamorph in ''Ben 10: Alien Force''

Music

* ''Ships'' (album) by Danielson * Ships (Irish band), an Irish band * Ships (Japanese band), a Japanese boy band * "Ship", a song by Level 42 on the album '' Retroglide'' * "Ships" (song), 1979, by Ian Hunter * "Ships + Tides", a song by OneRepublic from ''Human''

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

* Shipping (fandom), internet phenomenon of involvement with fictional romance * ''The Ship'' (video game), a 2006 first-person shooter video game

SHIP

* INPP5D or SHIP1 (SH2-containing inositol phosphatase 1), an enzyme * Phosphatidylinositol-3,4,5-trisphosphate 5-phosphatase, an enzyme * Seed Herbarium Image Project * Study of Health in Pomerania

Other uses

* Ship (St. Paul's Churchyard), a historical bookseller in London * A Boy Scouts of America Sea Scout crew level * Shippensburg University, Pennsylvania, nicknamed "Ship" * Ships Coffee Shop, Los Angeles, California, US