Shape is the characteristic surface configuration of a thing; an outline or contour.

Shape may also refer to:

Fictional characters Michael Myers (Halloween), or The Shape, a fictional character from the Halloween horror film franchise Shape (comics), a fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe The Shape Japer, a villain in the BBC television series Numberjacks

Media Shape (magazine), a fitness magazine The Shape (book), a 2000 poetry collection by Dejan Stojanović "Shapes" (The X-Files), an episode of the TV series The X-Files

Art Shape (visual arts), a flat, enclosed area of an artwork Music Performers The Shapes (UK band), a 1970s punk rock band The Shapes, a UK experimental pop band fronted by Micachu The Shapes (US band), a 2000s American band that wrote and performed the theme song for the TV series Dallas SWAT

Albums Shape (album), a 1996 album by Frente! Shapes (album), a 1997 album by Polvo Shapes, a 1994 album by Greg Howard

Songs "Shape" (song), a song by Sugababes "Shape", a song by Joe Morris from Singularity "Shapes", a song by The Long Winters from When I Pretend to Fall "Shapes", a song by Alcohol Funnycar "The Shape", a song by Slipknot from Iowa

Companies and organizations Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE), the central command of NATO military forces, Casteau, Belgium SHAPE America, working name of the Society of Health and Physical Educators, American organisation SHAPE Services, a German software vendor Shape Arts or simply Shape, a charity funded by Arts Council England

Food Arnott's Shapes, a line of snack foods Blancmange or shape, a sweet dessert

Other Shape (Go), a description of positional qualities of a group of stones in the game of Go SHAPE (molecular biology), Selective 2'-hydroxyl acylation analyzed by primer extension, a chemical-based RNA structure determination experiment Social Sciences, Humanities and the Arts for People and the Economy (SHAPE), an acronym for these academic disciplines Spectro-polarimetry of Habitable Planet Earth (SHAPE), scientific instrument onboard propulsion module of Chandrayaan-3 shape parameter a kind of numerical parameter for a parametric family of probability distributions

See also Shapefile, a geospatial vector data format for geographic information systems software Shape extension, in the X/Window System Shape:UK or Shapeshifters, a 2000s-2010s house music production duo The Shapes Project, an art project by Allan McCollum