court A court is an institution, often a government entity, with the authority to adjudicate legal disputes between Party (law), parties and Administration of justice, administer justice in Civil law (common law), civil, Criminal law, criminal, an ...

is a tribunal, often a governmental institution, with the authority to adjudicate legal disputes. Court or courts may also refer to:

Institutions

Royal court A royal court, often called simply a court when the royal context is clear, is an extended royal household in a monarchy, including all those who regularly attend on a monarch, or another central figure. Hence, the word ''court'' may also be app ...

, the retinue and larger household and entourage of a monarch, prince of the church, or a high nobleman

Places

* Court, Saskatchewan, hamlet in Canada *

Court, Switzerland Court is a Municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the Jura bernois (administrative district), Jura bernois administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is located in the French-speaking Bernese Jura (''Jura Bernois''). ...

, a municipality in the Canton of Berne *

Court (Barry electoral ward) Court is an electoral ward in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. It is represented by councillors on Barry Town Council and the Vale of Glamorgan Council. Description The Court ward covers the south of the Gibbonsdown area of the town, northeast o ...

, in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales *

Court (District Electoral Area) Court is one of the ten district electoral areas (DEA) in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Located in the north and west of the city, the district elects six members to Belfast City Council and contains the wards of Ballygomartin, Clonard, Falls, Fort ...

, in Belfast, Northern Ireland *Court, any one of several places listed in the

National Register of Historic Places listings in Pasadena, California This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in the city of Pasadena, California, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the la ...

* Courts Island, Tasmania * The Court, Charlton Mackrell, house in Somerset, England

People

* Court (surname)

Architecture

Food court A food court (in Asia-Pacific also called food hall or hawker centre) is generally an indoor plaza or common area within a facility that is contiguous with the counters of multiple food Vendor, vendors and provides a common area for self-serve di ...

, a collection of retail outlets selling food ready to eat *

Game court A pitch or a sports ground is an outdoor playing area for various sports. The term ''pitch'' is most commonly used in British English, while the comparable term in Australian, American and Canadian English is playing field or sports field. For mo ...

, a defined playing area with a prepared surface, for a game or sport, usually with solid boundaries **

Basketball court In basketball, the basketball court is the playing surface, consisting of a rectangular floor, with baskets at each end. Indoor basketball courts are almost always made of polished wood, usually maple, with -high rims on each basket. Outdoor ...

, a playing surface, consisting of a rectangular floor, with baskets at each end where the sport of basketball is played **

Tennis court A tennis court is the venue where the sport of tennis is played. It is a firm rectangular surface with a low net stretched across the centre. The same surface can be used to play both Types of tennis match, doubles and singles matches. A variet ...

, the venue where the sport of tennis is played

Arts and entertainment

* ''Court'' (2014 film), 2014 Indian courtroom drama film * ''Court'' (2025 film), 2025 Indian Telugu language legal drama film * ''The Court'' (TV series), a 2002 American legal drama television series * "The Court" (song), 2023 song by Peter Gabriel

Brands and enterprises

Court Line Court Line was a 20th-century British Tramp trade, tramp shipping company that was founded in 1905. In the 1960s it diversified into shipbuilding and Air charter, charter aviation. Its merchant shipping interests were based in Port of London, Lo ...

, a defunct frill-free charter airline *

Courts (retailer) Courts is a furniture and electronics retailer, founded by William Henry Court in Canterbury, England in 1850. In 1959, Courts opened its first store in Jamaica, and subsequently grew across the Caribbean. In 2004, Courts plc went into administ ...

, a furniture retailer in the Caribbean and Pacific, and formerly the United Kingdom

Other uses

*Court, a social group of animals, notably

kangaroo Kangaroos are marsupials from the family Macropodidae (macropods, meaning "large foot"). In common use, the term is used to describe the largest species from this family, the red kangaroo, as well as the antilopine kangaroo, eastern gre ...

s *Court, a verb meaning to seek the affections of another, see

courtship Courtship is the period wherein some couples get to know each other prior to a possible marriage or committed romantic, ''de facto'' relationship. Courtship traditionally may begin after a betrothal and may conclude with the celebration of marri ...

Cul-de-sac A dead end, also known as a ''cul-de-sac'' (; , ), a no-through road or a no-exit road, is a street with only one combined inlet and outlet. Dead ends are added to roads in urban planning designs to limit traffic in residential areas. Some d ...

, a dead-end street with a circular turnaround area for vehicles to turn around and exit back the way they came in {{Disambiguation