Shunt may refer to: Shunt (medical), a hole or passage allowing fluid to move from one part of the body to another Shunt (electrical), a device allowing electric current to pass around a point in a circuit Shunt, a British term for rear-end collision of road vehicles Shunt (railway operations), sorting items of rolling stock into trains, also called "switching" Shunt (sailing), a maneuver for sailing upwind on reversible single-outrigger boats Shunt (theatre company), an experimental theatre company based in London Shunt, an alternative metabolic pathway Shunt, a house robot in the TV series Robot Wars