Gather, gatherer, or gathering may refer to:

Anthropology and sociology

Hunter-gatherer A hunter-gatherer or forager is a human living in a community, or according to an ancestrally derived Lifestyle, lifestyle, in which most or all food is obtained by foraging, that is, by gathering food from local naturally occurring sources, esp ...

, a person or a society whose subsistence depends on hunting and gathering of wild foods * Intensive gathering, the practice of cultivating wild plants as a step toward domestication *

Harvest Harvesting is the process of collecting plants, animals, or fish (as well as fungi) as food, especially the process of gathering mature crops, and "the harvest" also refers to the collected crops. Reaping is the cutting of grain or pulses fo ...

ing crops

Craftwork

Gather (sewing) Gathering turns the edge of a piece of fabric into a bunch of small folds that are held together by a thread close to the edge. Gathering makes the fabric shorter where it is Sewing, stitched. The whole of the fabric flares out into irregular, roll ...

, an area where fabric is folded or bunched together with thread or yarn * Gather (knitting), a generic term for one of several knitting techniques to draw stitches closer together *

Gathering (bookbinding) In bookbinding, a section, gathering, or signature is a group of sheets folded in half, to be worked into the binding as a unit. The section is the basic building block of codex bindings. In Western bookbinding, sections are sewn through thei ...

, a number of sheets of paper folded and sewn or glued as a group into a bookbinding

Gathering

*Gathering, any type of party or

meeting A meeting is when two or more people come together to discuss one or more topics, often in a formal or business setting, but meetings also occur in a variety of other environments. Meetings can be used as form of group decision-making. Definiti ...

, including: **

Bee (gathering) Communal work is a gathering for mutually accomplishing a task or for communal fundraising. Communal work provided manual labour to others, especially for major projects such as barn raising, "bees" of various kinds (see below), log rolling, and ...

, an old term which describes a group of people coming together for a task **

Salon (gathering) A salon is a gathering of people held by a host. These gatherings often consciously followed Horace's definition of the aims of poetry, "either to please or to educate" (Latin: ''aut delectare aut prodesse''). Salons in the tradition of the Fren ...

, a party associated with French and Italian intellectuals *

Global gathering Global Gathering was an annual dance music festival by Angel Festivals Limited. Festivals are held in countries such as the UK, Poland, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and feature leading electronic music artists from around the globe. The festival ran ...

, a music festival in the United Kingdom *

Rainbow Gathering Rainbow Gatherings are temporary, loosely knit communities of people, who congregate in outdoor locales around the world for one or more weeks at a time with the stated intention of living a shared ideology of peace, harmony, freedom, and resp ...

Ricochet Gathering Ricochet Gathering is a collaboration event for electronic music. The name applies both to the event and to the group of musicians involved in the event, where a group of musicians and a usually small group of fans gather at locations around the ...

, a music event in the United States *

Tribal Gathering Tribal Gathering is the original British electronic dance music festival that between 1993 and 2004 catered for different types of dance music cultures such as techno, house and drum & bass. After 18 years, Tribal Gathering returns in 2023 for ...

, a music festival in the United Kingdom * ''Gathering'' (album), an album by Josh Ritter *

Gathering (animation studio) Gather, gatherer, or gathering may refer to: Anthropology and sociology *Hunter-gatherer, a person or a society whose subsistence depends on hunting and gathering of wild foods * Intensive gathering, the practice of cultivating wild plants as a s ...

, Japanese animation studio *

Gathering (LDS Church) Gathering has been an important part of life in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), from gathering as missionaries to gathering for worship services. In the early days of the church, members were asked to gather together ...

, a doctrine of the Latter Day Saints

Other

* ''Gather'' (film), a 2020 documentary film about Native American foodways *

Gatherers (band) Gatherers (formerly known as Gatherer) is a melodic hardcore band from Bayonne, New Jersey. Founded in 2011,

, an American melodic hardcore band * "Gatherings" (''Spaced''), a television episode *

Gathering of Developers Gathering of Developers, Inc. (shortened as G.O.D. or GodGames, and branded as Gathering between 2003 and 2004) was an American video game publisher based in New York City. Founded by Mike Wilson and associates in January 1998 and originally b ...

, sometimes called as 'Gathering' *Rag gatherer, an archaic occupation, also known as

rag picker A rag-and-bone man or ragpicker (UK English) or ragman, old-clothesman, junkman, or junk dealer (US English), also called a bone-grubber, bone-picker, chiffonnier, rag-gatherer, rag-picker, bag board, or totter, collects unwanted household items ...

* Gather.com, a social networking website *"Gather", song from '' All the Light Above It Too''

Anthropology and sociology

Craftwork

Gathering

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