Bench

Bench or The Bench can refer to:

Furniture

 * Bench (furniture), a long seat
 * Memorial bench, a bench commemorating something that is deceased
 * Workbench, a table at which manual work is done
 * Countertop or benchtop

Arts

 * The Bench (2000 film), a Danish film
 * The Bench (TV series), a 2001 British series
 * The Bench (Hogarth), a painting by William Hogarth
 * The Bench (book), a 2021 children's book by Meghan, Duchess of Sussex

Business

 * Bench (Philippine clothing brand)
 * Bench (British clothing brand)
 * Bench Accounting, a company

Geology

 * Bench (geology), a long, relatively narrow strip of relatively level or gently inclined land of differing origins that is bounded by distinctly steeper slopes above and below it
 * Benches, steps cut into the side of open-pit mines

Law and politics

 * Bench (law), the location where a judge sits while in court, often a raised desk in a courtroom; also refers to the judiciary as a whole, and to a group of judges hearing a case and judging on a case
 * Bench, the panel or body of justices of the peace in a specific county under the traditional English system of magistracy

People

 * Jo Bench, English death metal bass player
 * Johnny Bench, American baseball player
 * Lauren Bench, American ice hockey player

Places

 * Bench, Idaho
 * Bench (woreda), a district in Ethiopia

Spoken

 * Bench language, spoken in the Bench Maji Zone of Ethiopia
 * Bench people, an ethnic group of Ethiopia, speakers of the Bench language
 * Benching or bentching, an English-language term for reciting Birkat Hamazon

Sports

 * Bench, the place where players available for substitution wait (synonymously dugout); also referred to the players as such
 * In soccer, the technical area contains the bench
 * Bench (weight training), a piece of weight training equipment
 * Bench press, one of three power-lifting exercises
 * The Bench, the student rooting section for the University of California men's basketball team