sandbox

A sandbox is a sandpit, a wide, shallow playground construction to hold sand, often made of wood or plastic.

Sandbox or Sand box may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

* Sandbox (band), a Canadian rock music group
* ''Sandbox'' (Michael Houser album), 2006, or the title track
* ''Sandbox'', a 1987 album by Guided by Voices
* Sandbox Theatre, an experimental theatre group in Minneapolis, Minnesota
* ''The Sandbox'' (play), a 1960 one-act play by Edward Albee
* ''The Sandbox'' (2012 video game), a 2012 game for mobile phones
* ''Sandbox'' (stylized ''s&box''), an in-development game by Facepunch Studios

Computing

* Sandbox (computer security), a virtual container in which untrusted programs can be safely run
* Sandbox (software development), an environment in which code or content changes can be tested without affecting the original system
* Sandbox (video game editor), a game level editor for ''Far Cry''
* Sandbox effect, in Google Internet search rankings
* Sandbox game, a genre or ''mode'' of some video games for open-ended, nonlinear play
* Sandbox Studios, a computer- and video-game developer

Other uses

* Sand box (civil engineering), a device to remove centring
* Sandbox (locomotive), a container that holds sand for use in improving rail adhesion in slippery conditions
* Sandbox (missile) or SS-N-12, a Soviet anti-ship missile
* Sandbox, a container for pounce (calligraphy), used before the invention of blotting paper
* Sandbox therapy, a tool used by child psychologists
* Sandbox tree, the evergreen species '' Hura crepitans'' of the spurge family (Euphorbiaceae), also known as possumwood and jabillo, native to tropical regions in the Americas

See also

* Litter box, an indoor sandbox, usually filled with kitty litter, in which house pets are trained to relieve themselves
* Sandboxie, an OS-level virtualization, operating system-level virtualization program

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