A sandbox is a wide, shallow playground construction to hold sand, often made of wood or plastic.

Sandbox or sand box may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Sandbox (band), a Canadian rock music group

Sandbox (Guided by Voices album), 1987

Sandbox (Michael Houser album), 2006, or the title track

Sandbox (The All-American Rejects album), 2026

Sandbox: The Music of Mark Sandman, 2004

Sandbox Theatre, an experimental theatre group in Minneapolis, Minnesota

The Sandbox (play), a 1960 one-act play by Edward Albee

Video gaming

Sandbox game, a genre or mode of some video games for open-ended, nonlinear play

The Sandbox (2012 video game), a 2012 game for mobile phones

S&box, an open source game engine by Facepunch Studios

Sandbox Studios, a computer- and video-game developer

The Sandbox (company), a metaverse platform developer

Sandbox (video game editor), a game level editor for Far Cry

Computing

Sandbox (computer security), a virtual container in which untrusted programs can be safely run

Sandbox (software development), an environment in which code or content changes can be tested without affecting the original system

Sandbox effect, in Google Internet search rankings

Other uses

Sand box (civil engineering), a device to remove centring

Sandbox (locomotive), a container that holds sand for use in improving rail adhesion in slippery conditions

Sandbox (missile) or SS-N-12, a Soviet anti-ship missile

Sandbox, a container for pounce (calligraphy), used before the invention of blotting paper

Sandbox therapy, a tool used by child psychologists

Sandbox tree, the evergreen species Hura crepitans of the spurge family (Euphorbiaceae), also known as possumwood and jabillo, native to tropical regions in the Americas