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 "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