- outlying areas (as of a city or town); "they lived on the outskirts of Houston"; "they mingled in the outskirts of the crowd"
- Outskirts is the 1987 debut album by Blue Rodeo. The single "Try" was a hit for the band in their native Canada.
- Okraina (Окраина, The Outskirts, aka The Patriots in the US) is a 1933 Soviet film directed by Boris Barnet.
- (outskirt) a more remote part of a town or city; the periphery, environs; a suburb
- use first and last letters, e.g. trendy outskirts = TY