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A bench is a long seat fit for several persons, with or without back and/or arm rests, for sitting indoor (often in rows) or outdoor (as in a park). Benches have also been used as obstacles in the sport of skateboarding, and have also been used in other extreme sports. [1]

Bench may also refer to:

• Bench (metonymy), certain people in a given (e.g. professional) context, associated with a particular seating, especially in politics and law
• Bench (weight training), a piece of weight training equipment, often very similar to the above "wide backless chair"
• A thwart in a boat
• Bench or bentsching, the Jewish blessing said after a meal
• Bench language (Bench-non), a Northern Omotic language spoken in Kaffa (southeastern Ethiopia)
• Workbench, a place of work consisting of a table and perhaps places to keep an arrangement of tools and materials.
• Bench press, an open-chained form of free-weightlifting
• In surveying and civil engineering, a landform consisting of a long strip of land at constant height in an otherwise sloped area. If natural it is typically caused by successive depositions and erosions by a river in a floodplain. It may also be part part of an artificial earthworks (c.f. benchmark, q.v. berm)
• Bench (Judicial) refers to a group of judges hearing a case and juding on the matter.
• Baseball Hall of Famer Johnny Bench
• Bench., a UK brand of urban street clothing and accessories. Also a popular brand of clothing in the Philippines where the logo is "Bench/". Nicole Scherzinger of the Pussycat Dolls is a model for the Philippine brand because of her Filipino roots.
• In baseball, the Bench refers to the players on the 25-man roster that do not start regularly or are not currently playing in any given game.

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