Carving is the act of using tools to shape something from a material by scraping away portions of that material. It may also refer to:

Arts

  • Bone carving
  • Chip carving
  • Gourd carving or Gourd art
  • Ice carving or Ice sculpture
  • Ivory carving
  • Stone carving
  • Petroglyph
  • Vegetable carving
  • Wood carving
  • Hobo nickel

Others

  • Data carving and/or file carving, two closely related data recovery techniques
  • Meat carving
  • Skiing or snowboarding carving style, see carve turn
  • Carve (video game), a 2004 racing video game
  • Carved: The Slit-Mouthed Woman, a 2007 Japanese horror film
  • Carvings (Indiana State Library), a series of bas-relief limestone panels decorating the facade of the Indiana State Library in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
  • Carved Records, an American record label
  • Carving, a type of self harm
  • Seam carving, an image resizing algorithm