The skeletal system provides which type of support?

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Structural support is the skeletal system’s main job: bones form a rigid framework that holds the body up, supports soft tissues, and maintains posture by resisting gravity. This framework gives the body its shape and provides stable points to transfer loads to the ground, enabling upright stance and proper alignment. Movement arises from bones acting as levers with attached muscles, but that relates to how the body moves rather than the fundamental support role. The skeleton also protects organs and provides attachment sites for muscles and ligaments, but the type of support it primarily provides is the structural framework that underpins the body's form and posture.