Bench or The Bench can refer to:

Furniture

Bench (furniture) A bench is a long seat on which multiple people may sit at the same time. Benches are typically made of wood, but may also be made of metal, stone, or other synthetic materials. Many benches have back rests while others do not and can be sat o ...

, a long seat * 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 (British clothing brand) Bench Global Ltd. (usually branded as "Bench.") is a British clothing brand that is sold worldwide, including in Europe and Canada. The company was founded in Manchester, England, and specialises in streetwear. History The brand began in 1 ...

* Bench (Philippine clothing brand) *

Bench Accounting Bench Accounting (branded as "Bench") is a fintech company that uses proprietary software to automate bookkeeping and provide financials for small business owners. Bench was founded in 2012 by Ian Crosby, along with Jordan Menashy, Adam Saint, a ...

, 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) Bench used in a legal context can have several meanings. First, it can simply indicate the location in a courtroom where a judge sits. Second, the term bench is a metonym used to describe members of the judiciary collectively, or the judges of ...

, 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 A justice of the peace (JP) is a judicial officer of a lower or ''puisne'' court, elected or appointed by means of a commission ( letters patent) to keep the peace. In past centuries the term commissioner of the peace was often used with the sa ...

in a specific county under the traditional English system of magistracy

People

Jo Bench Jo, jo, JO, or J.O. may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Jo'' (film), a 1972 French comedy * ''Jo'' (TV series), a French TV series *"Jo", a song by Goldfrapp from ''Tales of Us'' *"Jo", a song by Mr. Oizo from ''Lambs Anger'' * Jo a fictio ...

, an English death metal bass player *

Johnny Bench John Lee Bench (born December 7, 1947) is an American former professional baseball player. He played his entire Major League Baseball career, which lasted from through , with the Cincinnati Reds, primarily as a catcher. Bench was the leader of t ...

, a baseball player

Places

* Bench, Idaho *

Bench (woreda) Bench was one of the 77 woredas in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region of Ethiopia. It was named for the Bench people, whose homeland lies in the northern part of the woreda. Part of the Bench Maji Zone, Bench was bordered on ...

, a district in Ethiopia

Spoken

Bench language Bench (''Bencnon'', Shenon or Mernon, formerly called Gimira Rapold 2006) is a Northern Omotic language of the "Gimojan" subgroup, spoken by about 174,000 people (in 1998) in the Bench Maji Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People ...

, spoken in the Bench Maji Zone of Ethiopia **

Bench people Bench people (also known as Gimira), are an Omotic-speaking people indigenous to southwestern Ethiopia. According to the 2007 census there are 353,526 Bench people in Ethiopia, making up 0.48% of the country's total populationBenching or bentching, an English-language term for reciting Birkat Hamazon

Sports

*Bench, the place where players available for

substitution Substitution may refer to: Arts and media *Chord substitution, in music, swapping one chord for a related one within a chord progression * Substitution (poetry), a variation in poetic scansion * "Substitution" (song), a 2009 song by Silversun Pi ...

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 The bench press, or chest press, is a weight training exercise in which the trainee presses a weight upwards while lying on a weight training bench. Although the bench press is a full-body exercise, the muscles primarily used are the pectorali ...

, one of three power-lifting exercises *''The Bench'', the student rooting section for the University of California men's basketball team, see California Golden Bears#The Bench