Limbo (disambiguation)

Limbo is an afterlife condition hypothesized by Medieval Roman Catholic theologians, but not made official Catholic doctrine. In everyday speech, the term similarly refers to the state itself of some noun that is in-between states (example: "My employment is in limbo as I am between jobs.").

Limbo may also refer to:

Film

• Limbo (1972 film), an American film by Mark Robson
• Limbo (1999 film), an American film by John Sayles
• Limbo (2010 film), a Norwegian film by Maria Sødahl
• Limbo (2014 film), an Argentinian film by Iván Noel
• Limbo (2019 film), a German one-shot film by Tim Dünschede
• Limbo (2020 film), a British film by Ben Sharrock
• Limbo (2021 film), a Chinese-Hong Kong film by Cheang Pou-soi
• Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (working title: Limbo), a 2022 Mexican film by Alejandro González Iñárritu
• Limbo (2023 film), an Australian film by Ivan Sen

Games

• Limbo (video game), a 2010 video game
• Limbo (Dungeons & Dragons), a fictional plane of existence in Dungeons & Dragons
• Limbo, a fictional dimension in DmC: Devil May Cry

Literature

• Limbo (short story collection), a collection of short stories by Aldous Huxley
• Limbo (Brathwaite poem), a poem by Edward Kamau Brathwaite
• Limbo (Coleridge poem), a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Limbo (DC Comics), a fictional location in the DC Comics
• Limbo (Marvel Comics), a fictional dimension in the Marvel Comics universe
• First circle of hell or Limbo, a level of hell in the Inferno by Dante Alighieri
• "Limbo", a poem by Seamus Heaney in Wintering Out
• "Limbo", an 1897 essay by Vernon Lee
• Limbo, a novel by Andy Secombe
• Limbo, a novel by Bernard Wolfe

Music

• Limbo (Throwing Muses album), or the title song
• Limbo (Aminé album) (2020)

Songs

• "Limbo" (Daddy Yankee song) (2012)
• "Limbo" (Bryan Ferry song) (1988)
• "Limbo" (Royal Blood song) (2021)
• "Limbo", a 1980 song by Fischer-Z from Going Deaf for a Living
• "Limbo", a 1997 song by Kylie Minogue from Impossible Princess
• "Limbo", a 2016 song by Mishlawi
• "Limbo", a 1996 instrumental by Rush from Test for Echo

Other uses

• Limbo (boutique), a former shop in Manhattan, New York, US
• Limbo (dance), a traditional Trinidadian dance that involves bending backwards under a pole
• Limbo (programming language)
• Limbo (skating), a sport in which a person roller skates underneath an obstacle
• Limbo (weapon), an anti-submarine weapons system
• Limbo, a fictional galaxy in the SilverHawks animated television series

People with the name

• Limbo Parks (born 1965), American American football player
• Agnes Limbo (born 1957), Namibian politician

See also

• Escheat, a common law doctrine
• In Limbo (disambiguation)
• "Limbo Rock", a song popularized by Chubby Checker in 1962
• Limbo Party, a 1962 album by Chubby Checker
• Mount Limbo, a mountain in Nevada, US
• Otherplace, a fictional dimension in the Marvel Comics universe