# Lift

Lift or LIFT may refer to:

## Physical devices

* Elevator, or lift, a device used for raising and lowering people or goods
** Paternoster lift, a type of lift using a continuous chain of cars which do not stop
** Patient lift, or Hoyer lift, mobile lift, ceiling lift, a lift to assist a caregiver for a disabled patient
** Rack lift, a type of elevator
** Ski lift, an aerial or surface lift for uphill transport
** Space elevator, a hypothetical structure for transporting material from a planet's surface into outer space
** Wheelchair lift or platform lift, a powered device to assist a person in a wheelchair
* Forklift, a powered industrial truck used to lift and move materials short distances
* Scissor lift, a type of aerial work platform
* Body lift, an adaptation (of fixed height) to lift the automobile body from the frame
* Suspension lift, a modification raising the suspension of the automobile
* Stairlift, a mechanical device to help people with disabilities get up stairs
* Heel lift, a shoe insert to increase the height of the wearer

## Sport

* A specific way of lifting a barbell, dumbbell(s), kettlebell, or other piece of sporting equipment in a strength sport (e.g. weightlifting, weight training, powerlifting), such as
** clean-and-jerk, snatch, deadlift, squat, bench press, military press, clean-and-press, dumbbell curl, fly, calf raise, two hands anyhow
* Figure skating lifts, movements in pair skating and ice dancing

## Science and technology

* Lift (force), in fluid dynamics, a force generated by an object moving through a fluid
** Lift coefficient, a coefficient that relates the lift generated by a lifting body to other parameters
* Lift (soaring), rising air used by soaring birds and glider, hang glider and paraglider pilots for soaring flight
* Lift (data mining), a measure of the performance of a model at segmenting the population
* Lift (web framework), a web application framework for Scala
* Light-Induced Fluorescence Transient, a device to remotely measure chlorophyll fluorescence in plants

## Mathematics

* Lift (mathematics), an kind of morphism in category theory
* Homotopy lifting property, a unique path over a map
* Covering graph or lift

## Cosmetics

* Shoe lifts, a removable shoe insert
** Elevator shoes, shoes that have thickened sections of the insoles
* Plastic surgery, surgery to lift the skin
** Rhytidectomy or face lift, a type of plastic surgery
** Mastopexy or breast lift, a type of plastic surgery

## Media

* London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT)

### Films

* The Lift, a 1983 Dutch horror film by Dick Maas
* Lift (2021 film), a 2021 Indian Tamil-language horror drama film
* Lift (2024 film), an American heist comedy film

### Music

* Lift (band), a German rock band

#### Albums

* Lift (Audio Adrenaline album) or the title song, 2001
* Lift (Dave Gunning album), 2015
* Lift (Love and Rockets album) or the title song, 1998
* Lift (Shannon Noll album) or the title song (see below), 2005
* Lift (Sister Hazel album), 2004
* Lift: Live at the Village Vanguard, by Chris Potter, or the title song, 2004
* Lift, by Onehundredhours, 2001

#### Songs

* "Lift" (Poets of the Fall song), 2004
* "Lift" (Radiohead song), 2017
* "Lift" (Sean Tyas song), 2006
* "Lift" (Shannon Noll song), 2005
* "Lift", by Immanuel Wilkins from The 7th Hand (2022)

## Other uses

* LIFT (nonprofit), a nonprofit anti-poverty organization
* LIFT (airline), South African Domestic Airline
* Lead-in fighter trainer, a type of advanced military training aircraft
* Legal Information for Families Today (LIFT), nonprofit that provides legal information in New York State, US
* Lift (soft drink), a brand of carbonated beverage produced and marketed by the Coca-Cola Company
* Airlift, in logistics, the act of transporting people or cargo from point to point using aircraft
* Hitchhiking, a form of transport in which the traveller tries to get a lift (or ride) from another traveller
* Lift, a special type of arrow in the video game engine StepMania