Volunteering is the practice of people working on behalf of others without being motivated by financial or material gain.

Volunteer or volunteers may also refer to:

Volunteerism

  • Voluntears, Disney cast members who volunteer their time for charitable or community causes
  • Loyal Volunteers, a white settler movement in the Conococheague Valley of colonial Pennsylvania sometimes known as the Black Boys Rebellion

Military and paramilitary

  • Military volunteer, may refer to either non-conscripts, or to reservists

American and Irish

  • Volunteer (Irish republican)
  • Volunteer (Ulster loyalist)
  • Volunteers of Ireland, a Loyalist American regiment of Irish ancestry 1778–84
  • Irish Volunteers
  • Irish Volunteers (18th century), formed to support the Irish Patriot Party 1778–85

British

  • British Volunteer Corps, a home defence force raised as part of the British anti-invasion preparations of 1803–1805
  • Volunteer Force, a home defence force from 1857 to 1908

Religious

  • Volunteers of America, a social welfare group

Film and television

  • The Volunteer (1917 film), an American silent drama film
  • The Volunteer (1944 film), a recruitment short
  • Volunteers (1958 film), a Soviet feature film
  • Volunteers (1985 film), a comedy starring John Candy and Tom Hanks
  • "Volunteers" (Abbott Elementary), a 2025 episode of the workplace sitcom
  • "The Volunteer" (Full House), a 1991 episode of the family sitcom

Books

  • The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery, a 2012 book reprinting a report by Witold Pilecki
  • The Volunteer: One Man's Mission to Lead an Underground Army Inside Auschwitz and Stop the Holocaust, a 2019 book by Jack Fairweather about Pilecki

Music

  • Volunteers (Jefferson Airplane album), 1969
  • Volunteer (Sham 69 album), 1988
  • Volunteers (Spear of Destiny album), 2001
  • Volunteer (Old Crow Medicine Show album), 2018
  • The Volunteers (album) (2004), by onelinedrawing
  • "Volunteers" (song), by Jefferson Airplane
  • "The Volunteer" (1966), a single by Autry Inman

Places

  • Volunteer Hotel, a former pub in Sydney, Australia
  • Volunteer Island, among the Line Islands of Kiribati
  • Volunteer Park, Armadale, a football ground in West Lothian, Scotland
  • Volunteer Point, Falkland Islands

United States

  • Volunteer, North Carolina, an unincorporated community
  • Volunteer Park (Seattle)
  • Volunteer State Community College, in Gallatin, Tennessee
  • The Volunteer State, nickname for Tennessee

Ships

  • Volunteer (yacht), winner of the 1887 America's Cup
  • , the name of more than one ship of the British Royal Navy
  • , operational replica of a 19th-century canal boat based in Illinois, United States
  • , the name of more than one United States Navy ship

Sports

  • Volunteer State Athletic Conference, a defunct Tennessee college conference
  • Volunteer 500, the original name of the Sharpie 500 NASCAR race
  • Tennessee Volunteers, the sports teams of the University of Tennessee

Other uses

  • Volunteer (botany), a desirable plant that grows on its own, rather than being planted
  • Volunteer (capital punishment), a prisoner who wishes to be sentenced to death
  • A Volunteer, an 1860 painting by Henry Nelson O'Neil

See also

  • Voluntarism (disambiguation)
  • Voluntary (disambiguation)
  • The Volunteers (disambiguation)