The term bank may refer to the following:
- a financial institution and intermediary that accepts deposits and channels them into lending activities
- Blood bank, a Repository for blood or blood components stored and preserved for use in blood transfusions
- Gene bank, a repository for biological material, specifically genetic material
- Seed bank, a type of gene bank that stores seeds of food crops for later planting, or rare species of plants as a means of ensuring biodiversity
- a geographical term referring to the terrain alongside a body of water
- Diaper bank, a type of charitable organization that provides diapers for people who cannot afford or do not otherwise have access to them, via donations in cash or in kind
- Ocean bank (or fishing bank), a relatively shallow area in a body of water, such as the sea, that may be a rich fishing ground
- Bank engine (also helper engine, pusher engine), a railway locomotive attached to the rear of a train for additional power and traction, usually for climbing sloped areas
- Bank (or roll), a rotation of a fixed-wing aircraft about its longtitudinal axis
- Banked turn, a turn or change of direction in which a vehicle banks or inclines, usually towards the inside of the turn
- a type of shot in basketball wherein the ball is bounced off of the backboard and into the basket
- a type of shot in cue sports wherein the object ball is driven to one or more rails before reaching its intended target
- Bánk, a village and municipality in the county of Nógrád in Hungary
- Bank (or Banak), a city in the province of Bushehr in Iran
- Citizens Bank Park (also CBP, The Bank), a baseball park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the US
- Bank Street College of Education, a private graduate school in New York City, New York in the US
- BANK, a group of artists who were active in London during the 1990s
- The Bank, a 1915 silent comedy film starring Charlie Chaplin
- The Bank, a 2001 Australian film starring David Wenham and Anthony LaPaglia
- Overdrawn at the Memory Bank, a 1983 science fiction TV movie starring Raúl Juliá
- Memory Bank, a short-lived daytime game show in the UK
- Mitigation banking (also environmental mitigation, compensatory mitigation), a type of project or program intended to offset known impacts to a historic or natural resource
- Bank paper, a type of thing but strong writing paper or a type of security issued by a bank
- Cylinder bank, a single row of cylinders in an internal combustion engine
- Data bank, a centralized or decentralized repository of information on one or more subjects that is organized in a way that facilitates the retrieval of the information contained within
- Memory bank, a hardware-dependent logical unit of storage in electronics
- Piggy bank (also penny bank, money box), a ceramic or porcelain container for coins mostly used by children
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