Fence (disambiguation)

A fence is a barrier enclosing or bordering a field, yard, etc., usually made of posts and wire or wood, used to prevent entrance, to confine, or to mark a boundary.

Fence or fences may also refer to:

Entertainment

Music

• Fences (band), an American rock band
• Fences (song), a song by Blanche
• "Fence", a song from Everything Everywhere All at Once (soundtrack)
• "Fences", a song on Paramore's 2007 album Riot!
• "Fences", a song by Phoenix from the 2009 album Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

Other media

• Fence (magazine), an American literary magazine
• Fences (play), a 1987 Pulitzer Prize-winning play by August Wilson
  • Fences (film), a 2016 film adaptation of the play, starring Denzel Washington and Viola Davis, and directed by Washington
• Fence (comic book)
• The Fence (film), a 2025 English-language French drama
• Slitherlink or Fences, a logic puzzle published by Nikoli

Places

• Fence, Wisconsin, a town in the United States
• Fence (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community in the United States
• Fence, Lancashire, a village in England

Science and technology

• Fence (mathematics), a type of set
• Air Force Space Surveillance System, nicknamed "Space Fence"
• Chesterton's fence, a philosophical concept concerning progress

Computing

• Fence instruction, instruction constraining memory operations
• Fencing (computing), isolating a malfunctioning node
• Fences (software)
• Fenced code blocks in Markdown

Other uses

• Fence (criminal), dealer in the purchase and sale of stolen property
• Fence (finance), a combination of financial instruments used to protect an investor against adverse price movements
• Fence (woodworking), portion of a tool used as a guide
• Chumra (Judaism) or "building a fence around the Torah", a prohibition or obligation in Jewish practice
• Fencing response, an unnatural position of the arms following a concussion.

See also

• Fence lizard (disambiguation), two species of spiny lizard