Chute

Chute may refer to:

• Chute (gravity), a channel down which falling materials are guided
  • Mail chute, a chute for collecting and transporting mail within a building
  • Chute (landform), a steep-sided passage through which water flows rapidly; a new short channel that cuts across the neck of land separating the two ends of a river oxbow; formed when a high energy stream cuts a new short channel, called a chute.
• Chute (in North America), a cattle race, a channel for handling and sorting farm animals
• Squeeze chute, a cage for restraining a farm animal
• Chute (racecourse), a projection extending from either end of an oval-shaped racecourse
• Parachute, a device used to slow the motion of an object through an atmosphere by creating drag
• Pilot chute, a small auxiliary parachute
• Chaloner Chute (died 1659), Speaker of the House of Commons
• Christopher G. Chute, American biomedical informatics researcher
• Philip Chute, MP