- Bone is most commonly known as composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
- Bône is a city in Algeria. Its ancient name was Hipo Regius.
- Bone is also the name of a comic book/graphic novel by Jeff Smith in which the Bone Cousins (Fone Bone, Phoney Bone and Smiley Bone) are chased out of their town as a result of a scheme by Phoney Bone and encounter dimwitted quiche-loving rat creatures, taciturn dragons, displaced royalty, and talking bugs.
- A bone is also one of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, gives it rigidity, and that helps to shape the wearer's body.
- Bone was an Indonesian state, existing from 1350 to 1960 and ruled by an Arumpone of the Bone ruling family.
- The bones are a musical instrument sometimes made out of actual bone.
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