• Lifeboat (shipboard), a small craft aboard a ship to allow for emergency escape
• Lifeboat (rescue), a boat designed for sea rescues (predominantly used in the United Kingdom and Ireland)
• Lifeboat (film), a 1944 movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock
• "Lifeboat" (Stargate SG-1), a television episode
• Lifeboat ethic, an ethic proposed by Garret Hardin based on the metaphor of a lifeboat
• Lifeboat sketch, a sketch shown on Monty Python's Flying Circus
• Royal National Lifeboat Institution a charity whose aim is to save lives at sea around the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland
• Lifeboat (album), a 1972 album by The Sutherland Brothers and Quiver

See also

• Motor life boat
• Lifeboat Foundation