Icehouse or ice house may refer to: *

Ice house (building) An ice house, or icehouse, is a building used to store ice throughout the year, commonly used prior to the invention of the refrigerator. Some were underground chambers, usually man-made, close to natural sources of winter ice such as freshwate ...

, a building where ice is stored *

Ice shanty An ice shanty (also called an ice shack, ice house, fishing shanty, fish house, fish coop, bobhouse, ice hut, or darkhouse; ) is a portable shed placed on a frozen lake to provide shelter during ice fishing. They can be as small and cheap as a ...

, a shelter for ice fishing also known as an ''Icehouse'' *

Ice rink An ice rink (or ice skating rink) is a frozen body of water or an artificial sheet of ice where people can ice skate or play winter sports. Ice rinks are also used for exhibitions, contests and ice shows. The growth and increasing popularity of ...

, a facility for ice skating. *

Ice hockey arena An ice hockey arena (or ice hockey venue, or ice hockey stadium) is a sport venue in which an ice hockey competition is held. Alternatively it is used for other sports such as broomball, ringette and rink bandy. Multi-purpose arenas A number of ...

, an area where ice hockey is played, often professionally. ;Places *

The Ice House (comedy club) The Ice House Comedy Club is a comedy club located at 24 Mentor Avenue in Pasadena, California. The Ice House continues to thrive and during its many decades of operation has entertained over four million people. History It was opened in 1960 by ...

, a folk music- turned comedy-club in Pasadena, California * The Ice House, Great Yarmouth, a Grade II listed building in Norfolk, England * Ice House (Moulton, Alabama), listed on the National Register of Historic Places * Tugnet Ice House, a category A listed building in Scotland, the largest of its kind remaining in the UK * The Icehouse (business growth centre), a business growth centre in New Zealand * London Ice House, an arena in London, Ontario, Canada * Medibank Icehouse (Winter Olympic Institute of Australia), Australia's only dual ice skating and ice sports venue * Vivekanandar Illam, a palace at Chennai, India, also known as Ice House ;Music *

Icehouse (band) Icehouse are an Australian Rock music, rock band, formed in Sydney in 1977 as Flowers. Initially known in their homeland for their Pub rock (Australia), pub rock style, the band later achieved mainstream success playing New wave music, new wav ...

, an Australian rock band from 1981, formerly known as Flowers (1977-1981) ** ''Icehouse'' (album), the 1980 debut Australian rock album by band Flowers, later called Icehouse *** " Icehouse (song)", the title track, released as a single in 1981 by Icehouse ;Film * '' Ice House (film)'', a 1989 film starring

Melissa Gilbert Melissa Ellen Gilbert (born May 8, 1964) is an American actress. Gilbert began her career as a child actress in the late 1960s, appearing in numerous commercials and guest-starring roles on television. From 1974 to 1983, she starred as Laura Ing ...

and Bo Brinkman ;Other * Icehouse (beer), a brand of American beer * Icehouse pieces, nestable and stackable pyramid-shaped pieces with which the abstract strategy game Icehouse and many other games are played *

Icehouse Earth Throughout Earth's climate history ( Paleoclimate) its climate has fluctuated between two primary states: greenhouse and icehouse Earth. Both climate states last for millions of years and should not be confused with the much smaller glacial and ...

, a climate state describing glaciated periods of Earth history

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