Bench or The Bench can refer to:

Furniture

*Bench (furniture), a long seat *Workbench, a table at which manual work is done *Countertop or benchtop

Arts

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

Business

*Bench (British clothing brand) *Bench (Philippine 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 mining, 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, an English death metal bass player *Johnny Bench, a baseball 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 (sport), 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, see California Golden Bears#The Bench