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