Bench

Bench, The Bench, Benched, or Benching may refer to:

Furniture

• Bench (furniture), a long seat
  • Memorial bench, a bench commemorating someone who is deceased
• Workbench, a table at which manual work is done
• Countertop or benchtop

Arts

• The Bench (film), a 2000 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
• Benched (film), a 2018 sports drama
• Benched (TV series), a 2014 sitcom
• "Benched" (Modern Family), an episode of sitcom Modern Family
• "Benched", an episode of drama series Hit the Floor

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 (born 1947), American baseball player
• Lauren Bench (born 1997), 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, bentching, or bentsching: the recitation of Birkat Hamazon, a Jewish blessing after eating a meal, also known as Grace After Meals

Sports

• Bench, the place where players available for substitution wait (synonymously dugout); also used as a metonym to refer to the substitute players collectively, while an active player leaving the field to become a substitute is benched
  • 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, commonly referred to as benching
• The Bench, the student rooting section for the University of California men's basketball team

See also

• Benchmark (disambiguation)
• Benchmarking, the practice of comparing business processes and performance metrics to industry bests and best practices
• Benchmarking (hobby), a recreational activity in which participants search for benchmarks using a handheld Global Positioning System