Checkpoint may refer to:

• Border checkpoint
  • Checkpoint Charlie, a crossing point between East Berlin and West Berlin during the Cold War
• Civilian checkpoint, erected and enforced within contiguous areas under military or paramilitary control
  • Sobriety 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 computer or video game at which a player may restart if he is "killed" or loses the game
  • Adventure race checkpoint,
  • Orienteering checkpoint
• Checkpoint (Transformers), two fictional characters in the Transformers universes
• Check Point, a software company that is best known for its firewall and VPN products
• Cell cycle checkpoint, control mechanisms in eukaryotic cell division
• Postreplication checkpoint, prevents cell cycle progression until postreplication repair
• Checkpoint (novel), a novel by Nicholson Baker
• "Checkpoint" (Buffy episode), an episode of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Transaction checkpoint, for recovery in data management
• Application checkpointing, a method in computing whereby the state of a program is saved
• Checkpoint-restart, a method for restarting a long software process at a point beyond its beginning
• The English title for the 2003 documentary Machssomim
• Checkpoint a 1956 film.

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