Option

Option or Options may refer to:

Computing

• Option key, a key on Apple computer keyboards
• Option type, a polymorphic data type in programming languages
• Command-line option, an optional parameter to a command
• OPTIONS, an HTTP request method

Literature

• Options (novel), a novel by Robert Sheckley
• Option (car magazine), a Japanese car magazine
• Option (music magazine), a defunct American music magazine

Legal rights

• Option (aircraft purchasing)
• Option (filmmaking), a contractual agreement between a film producer and a writer, in which the producer obtains the right to buy a screenplay from the writer before a certain date.
• Option (finance), an instrument that conveys the right, but not the obligation, to engage in a future transaction (for example, on some underlying security or on a parcel of real property), or in a futures contract
• Option contract, a type of legal contract

Music

• "Options" (Luke James song)
• "Options" (PartyNextDoor song)
• "Options", a song by Pedro the Lion from his 2007 album Control

Sport

• Option (baseball), a baseball player who can be moved back and forth between major and minor league teams
• Option offense, an offensive scheme in American football primarily predicated on option runs
• Option run, a play in American and Canadian football

Other uses

• "Options" (Welcome to Paradox), an episode of Welcome to Paradox
• Option N.V., a company providing wireless technology solutions
• "The Option", an alternate name for the South Tyrol Option Agreement, a resettlement program of German speakers living in Italy initiated by Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini