Floor (disambiguation)

Floor may refer to one of the following:

Buildings

  • Floor, the lower surface of a room; and the supportive subfloor, the layer which structurally provides the strength and support for the flooring above commonly miscalled 'the floor'.
  • Storey, a level of a building
  • Flooring, a type of floor covering for example wood flooring, tile flooring, vinyl flooring
  • Floor (gymnastics), a specially prepared exercise surface
  • Dance floor or Sprung floor for dancing

Mathematics, science and engineering

Geography and Earth sciences

  • Seabed, the bottom of the ocean

Economics and business

Floor (legislative) and in public speaking

  • The generality of the house members, as opposed to committee
  • The part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery
  • In public speaking, such as a legislature or town hall meeting, the person currently allowed to speak is said to "have the floor"

Personal name

  • Floor, a Dutch given name for girls as well as boys, derived from the Latin florere, meaning "to be with flowers, to bloom".
  • Kabamba Floors, a South African rugby union footballer

Other uses

  • Floor (valley), the bottom of a valley
  • Floor (poker) a reference to a floor person who runs a poker room and makes decisions on hands.
  • Floor, a metal band from Florida
  • Floor, an album by the above-mentioned band.
  • The Floor, name under which the Danish rock band The Hitmakers were known in the period 1967–1968
  • Floors Castle, Scotland
  • Floor exercise, gymnastics routines with no equipment
  • Floored, a documentary about the Chicago trading floors
  • "FLOOR", a song by P-MODEL from the album Another Game
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