Bench

Bench or The Bench can refer to:

Furniture

• Bench (furniture), a piece of furniture that typically offers seating for several people.
• Workbench or lab bench, a place of work consisting of a table and perhaps places to keep an arrangement of tools and materials
• Countertop

Arts

• The Bench (2000 film), Danish film
• The Bench (2007 film), a short film from The Northern Film School in the United Kingdom
• The Bench (TV series), a BBC legal drama series set in a Welsh magistrate's court
• The Bench (Hogarth), a 1758 oil-on-canvas painting by the English artist William Hogarth

Brands

• Bench (British clothing brand)
• Bench (Philippine clothing brand)

Business

• Bench Accounting

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 (metonymy), certain people in a given context, associated with a particular seating area, especially in politics and law
• 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 (to differentiate from the Bar – the lawyers or barristers); and may also mean 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

Language

• Bench language (Bench-non), a Northern Omotic language spoken in the Bench Maji Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region (southwestern Ethiopia)

People

• Bench (woreda), a people in Ethiopia
• Jo Bench, English death metal bass player
• Johnny Bench, former Major League Baseball player for the Cincinnati Reds from 1967 to 1983

Sports

• Bench, players available for substitution
  • In soccer, the technical area contains the dugout (or "bench")
• Bench (weight training), a piece of weight training equipment
• Bench press, one of three power-lifting exercises
• The Bench (University of California), the student rooting section for the University of California men's basketball team