Tripod is a word generally used to refer to a three-legged object, generally one used as a platform of some sort, and comes from the Greek tripous, meaning "three feet".

Tripod may also refer to:

• sacrificial tripod, an ancient Greek altar
• Tripod (photography), a device used to position, support, and stabilize a camera
• Tripod (The War of the Worlds), a fictional vehicle
• The Tripods, a series of science-fiction novels by English author John Christopher, and a UK TV series based upon the books
• Tripod.com, a webhosting service
• M2 tripod, a machine gun tripod
• The tripod fish, Bathypterois grallator, deep sea fish named for the long extensions of its pelvic and lower caudal fins, on which it stands on the sea floor.
• A portable crane (machine)
• Visual Basic, whose forerunner was called tripod
• A nickname for Alice in Chains (album), the final studio album by Alice in Chains
• The "triPods", a parody of both the iPod and the War of the Worlds from Scary Movie 4
• Tripod (band), a musical comedy act.
• TriPod the band, a rock band with no guitars or keyboards