The word platform is used in several different contexts, usually referring to some kind of standing surface used to support things, give them stability, or visibility:

• Railway platform, an area at a train station to alight from/embark on trains or trams.
• Political platform, a list of principles held by a political party to appeal to the public.
  • Platformism, in anarchist politics, refers to organising in the tradition of Nestor Makhno's Organizational Platform of the Libertarian Communists.
• Platform (computing), in computing and technology, refers to a framework on which applications may be run
• Platform game, a genre of video games characterized by the player having to jump platforms
• Oil platform, a structure built for oil production
• Automobile platform, a set of components shared by several vehicle models
• Platform shoe, a kind of shoe with a thick sole
• Continental platform, in geology, the low depth sea area next to the continent
• Platform, in the swimming pool context, a flat surface, usually made of cement, and typically 3, 5, 7.5, or 10 meters above the water surface, from which bathers jump into the baths located below the platform.
• Jumping platform, naturally occurring platforms, or platforms made in an ad-hoc way for cliff jumping
• Platform (film), a 2000 film by Zhang Ke Jia
• Platform (novel), a 2001 novel by Michel Houellebecq
• Software development platform such as Mono development platform