Volunteer (disambiguation)

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Volunteer or Volunteers may refer to:

Volunteerism

• Volunteering, the practice of people working on behalf of others without being motivated by financial or material gain
• Volunteers of America, U.S. religious group working in social welfare
• Military volunteer, in some countries this means a person who freely enlists for military service, as opposed to a conscript; in other countries this means a reservist (originally unpaid, thus "volunteer")
• Volunteer (Irish republican)
• Volunteer (Ulster loyalist)
• Loyal Volunteers, a white settler movement in the Conococheague Valley of colonial Pennsylvania sometimes known as the Black Boys Rebellion.
• Volunteer Corps, a military home defence force raised as part of the British anti-invasion preparations of 1803–1805
• Volunteer Force (Great Britain), a British military home defence force from 1857 to 1908

Ships

• The Volunteer (canal boat), a replica of a 19th-century canal boat which operates on the Illinois and Michigan Canal at LaSalle, Illinois, in the United States
• HMS Volunteer, the name of more than one ship of the British Royal Navy
• USS Volunteer, the name of more than one United States Navy ship

Places

• Volunteer, North Carolina
• Volunteer Island, also called Starbuck Island, among the Line Islands of Kiribati
• Volunteer Park (Seattle)
• Volunteer Point, Falkland Islands
• Volunteer Hotel, former pub in Balmain, Sydney, Australia
• Volunteer State Community College, community college located in Gallatin, Tennessee

Sports

• Volunteer State Athletic Conference, a defunct Tennessee college conference
• Volunteer 500, the original name of the Sharpie 500 NASCAR race
• Volunteer (yacht), the winner of the 1887 America's Cup
• The Volunteers (or Vols), the nickname of the University of Tennessee sports teams

Popular culture

• Volunteers (Jefferson Airplane album) (1969)
• Volunteers (Spear of Destiny album) (2001)
• "Volunteers" (song), the title song of the Airplane's Volunteers album
• Volunteers (film) a 1985 comedy film starring John Candy and Tom Hanks
• Volunteer (band), Ukrainian punk/metal band

Other

• Volunteer (botany), a desirable plant that grows on its own, rather than being planted.
• Volunteer Officers' Decoration, awarded to officers of the Volunteer Force in the British Empire
• Volunteer Examiner Coordinator any organization approved for the administration of U.S. amateur radio license examinations.
• VoluntEARS, the term for Disney cast members who volunteer their time for charitable or community causes

See also

• Voluntarism (disambiguation)
• Voluntary (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles containing "Volunteer"

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