Places
- Border checkpoint, a place on the land border between two states where travellers and/or goods are inspected
- Checkpoint Charlie, the best known crossing point between East Berlin and West Berlin during the Cold War
- Security checkpoint, erected and enforced within contiguous areas under military or paramilitary control
- Random checkpoint, stopping vehicles on a public roadway looking for impaired drivers
- Weigh station, a highway checkpoint to inspect vehicular weights
- Waypoint, a reference point in physical space used for purposes of navigation
- Checkpoint (video gaming), a point in a video game at which a player may restart if their character is killed or they lose the game
- Orienteering checkpoint, a marked waypoint used in orienteering and related sports
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They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of
drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the
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