Shaft can refer to

• Axle, a central shaft for a rotating wheel or gear
• An architectural column's long cylindrical section
• the height of a boot
• Elevator shaft
• Shaft (1971 movie) or the 1971 novel on which it was based
• Shaft (album), the soundtrack for the movie of the same name, recorded by Isaac Hayes
• Shaft (2000 movie)
• Shaft (television)
• John Shaft, the title character of the above movies.
• Shaft (comics), a Marvel Comics ninja character
• Shaft (band), a dance music act who scored a 1999 hit with a cover/remix of (Mucho Mambo) Sway
• Shafting, illicit travelling through shafts
• Shaft mining
• Pitch (vertical space), a significant underground vertical space in caving terminology
• Driveshaft, a mechanical device for transferring power from the engine or motor to the point where useful work is applied
• The part of a golf club between its head and its grip
• a weapon in the Quake video game series
• Drive Shaft, the fictional rock band led by Charlie Pace in the TV series Lost
• Ventilation shaft
• Part of a loom
• Shaft (Castlevania), the dark priest from the Castlevania videogame series
• Shaft (company), a Japanese animation company
• Shaft (club), a Blues and Jazz Club in Istanbul, Turkey.