Shaft

Shaft may refer to:

Long narrow passages

• Elevator shaft
• Ventilation shaft, vertical passages used in mines and tunnels to move fresh air underground, and to remove stale air
• Shaft (civil engineering), an underground vertical or inclined passageway
• Pitch (ascent/descent), a significant underground vertical space in caving terminology
• Shaft mining, refers to the method of excavating a vertical or near-vertical tunnel from the top down, where there is initially no access to the bottom
• Shafting, illicit travelling through shafts

Long narrow rigid bodies

• Axle, a shaft around which one or more wheels rotate
• Drive shaft, a shaft for transferring torque
• Line shaft, a power transmission system
• Shaft (golf), the long, tapered tube which connects the golfer’s hands to the club head
• Staff (stick), various applications

Fiction

• 1971 novel by Ernest Tidyman about an African-American private detective
  • Shaft (1971 film), a film based on the novel
    • Shaft (album), the soundtrack for the film, recorded by Isaac Hayes
    • "Theme from Shaft", performed by Isaac Hayes
  • Shaft's Big Score, the second film in the trilogy
  • Shaft in Africa, the third film in the trilogy
  • Shaft (2000 film), a follow on of the 1971 film, released in 2000
    • Shaft (2000 soundtrack), the soundtrack to the 2000 action film, Shaft
  • Shaft (TV series), a series of TV movies
  • John Shaft, the title character of the above films
• Shaft (Castlevania), the dark priest from the Castlevania video game series
• Shaft (Marvel Comics), a Marvel Comics ninja character
• Shaft (comics), a comic book character created by Rob Liefeld for his comic Youngblood
• a weapon in the Quake video game series
• a horror movie, The Shaft

Music

• Shaft (rave), a UK dance music act which had a 1991 hit with 'Roobarb and Custard' sampling vintage children's television programme 'Roobarb'
• Shaft (British band), a dance music act which had a 1999 hit with a cover/remix of (Mucho Mambo) Sway
• Shaft (New Zealand band), a New Zealand indie band
• Shaft (club), a blues and jazz club in Istanbul, Turkey

Places

• Borden Shaft, Maryland, formerly called Shaft
• Shaft County, an administrative division of Gīlān Province in Iran
• Shaft, Iran, the capital of Shaft County

Other

• Shaft (company), a Japanese animation studio