A swarm is a group of animals that aggregate and travel in the same direction.

Swarm or The Swarm may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

  • Swarm (Marvel Comics), a Marvel Comics supervillain
  • Swarm (Transformers), a Transformers character
  • Swarm, the name of an Air-element character in Skylanders: Giants

Film and television

  • The Swarm (1978 film), a disaster film about a killer bee invasion
  • The Swarm (1990 film), a Soviet drama film
  • Destination: Infestation, a 2007 TV film released on DVD as Swarm or Deadly Swarm
  • The Swarm (2020 film), a French horror film about locusts
  • Swarm (TV series), a 2023 Amazon Prime Video horror-thriller series
  • The Swarm (TV series), a 2023 European Alliance co-produced TV series
  • "The Swarm" (Star Trek: Voyager), an episode of Star Trek: Voyager

Literature

  • The Swarm (Schätzing novel), a 2004 science fiction novel by Frank Schätzing
  • The Swarm (Card and Johnston novel), a 2016 science fiction novel by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston
  • The Swarm, a 1974 novel by Arthur Herzog
  • "Swarm" (novelette), a 1982 science fiction novelette written by Bruce Sterling
  • Galaxy of Fear: The Swarm, a book in the Galaxy of Fear series by John Whitman set in the Star Wars galaxy

Music

  • All About Eve (band), a British rock band formerly known as The Swarm
  • The Swarm, Dominic Glynn's band name for a music project
  • The Swarm (album), 1998 album by various artists affiliated with or part of the Wu-Tang Clan
  • Swarm!, a 2006 album by Torture Killer
  • "The Swarm" (song), a 2012 song by British rock band You Me at Six
  • "The Swarm", a 2025 song from the album The Ossuary Lens by Allegaeon
  • "The Swarm", a 1994 song from the album Terminal Spirit Diseaseby At the Gates
  • "Swarm", a 2001 song from the album Signs by Badmarsh & Shri
  • "The Swarm", a 2019 song from the album Rapture by Betraying the Martyrs
  • "The Swarm", a 2014 song from the album Shadows of the Dying Sun by Insomnium
  • "The Swarm", a 2014 song from the album Watchers of Rule by Unearth

Video games

  • Swarm (1998 video game), for IBM PC compatibles
  • Swarm (2011 video game), for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3
  • The Swarm, working title of the 2008 video game MorphX
  • Zerg, also known as The Swarm, a race in the Starcraft video game series

Other arts and entertainment

  • The Swarm (roller coaster), Thorpe Park, United Kingdom

Sports

  • Georgia Swarm, a box lacrosse team in the National Lacrosse League
  • Minnesota Swarm, a former box lacrosse team in the National Lacrosse League
  • Botany Swarm, a semi-professional ice hockey team based in East Auckland, New Zealand
  • Swarm (spirit organization), an organization of supporters of Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets sports teams

Technology

  • Swarm (app), a mobile app by Foursquare
  • Roccat Swarm, software by Roccat
  • Swarm (ESA mission), a European Space Agency satellite mission to measure Earth's magnetic field
  • Swarm (simulation), a multi-agent simulation package
  • SWARM, a remote weapon system
  • Swarm, a Docker software tool
  • Swarm, a decentralized file storage implementation for Ethereum

Other uses

  • Swarm Development Group, an American non-profit organization
  • Swarm Technologies, a satellite manufacturer
  • Swarm Peak, a rock peak in the Ford Ranges, Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica
  • The Swarm, the name of VTuber Neuro-sama's fanbase

See also

  • Swarm behaviour, examples and mathematical models
  • Swarm intelligence, an artificial intelligence technique
  • Swarm robotics, approach to the coordination of multirobot systems
  • Earthquake swarm, a series of earthquakes in one area
  • Swarming (honey bee), the natural means of reproduction of honey bee colonies
  • Swarming (military), an approach of using "pulses" of converging combat agents onto a target
  • Swarming motility, a type of bacterial motility