• the name for an enclosure where horses are kept in British English.
• in Australian and New Zealand English, the term can mean any field in the agricultural sense (as opposed to a playing field)
• the enclosed area at a racecourse where horses are paraded and mounted before a race, and unsaddled after a race.
• the area at a Greyhound racing track where Greyhounds are housed and inspected before a race
• an enclosure at a Motor racing track used by team support personnel and vehicles, and other officials and VIPs
• a toad mentioned by the witches in the first act of William Shakespeare's play MacBeth. Paddock is an archaic English word for "toad"
• a frog, as mentioned in the 1382 edition of the Wycliffe [middle] English Bible: Exodus 8:2-13
• Paddock (war rooms), a two-level concrete citadel in Dollis Hill serving as war rooms for Winston Churchill during World War II

People

• Algernon Paddock (1830-1897), American politician
• Benjamin Henry Paddock, 19th century Bishop of Massachusetts
• Charlie Paddock (1900-1943), American athlete and actor
• George A. Paddock (1885-1964), American politician
• John Paddock (born 1954), Canadian hockey coach
• John Adams Paddock, 19th century American Bishop
• Tom Paddock, 19th century British boxing champion

Places

• Paddock, Huddersfield, suburb in England
• Paddock Wood, village in Kent, England
• Paddock Township, Gage County, Nebraska, in the United States
• Paddock Township, Holt County, Nebraska, in the United States