Volunteer (disambiguation)
Volunteering is the practice of people working on behalf of others without being motivated by financial or material gain.
Look up volunteer, voluntary work, volunteering, or volunteerism in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
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
- "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
- HMS Volunteer, the name of more than one ship of the British Royal Navy
- The Volunteer (canal boat), operational replica of a 19th-century canal boat based in Illinois, United States
- USS Volunteer, 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
See also
- Voluntarism (disambiguation)
- Voluntary (disambiguation)
- All pages with titles containing Volunteer
- The Volunteers (disambiguation)
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