A swarm is a group of animals that aggregate and travel in the same direction.
Swarm or swarming may also refer to:
Biology
- Swarming motility, a type of bacterial motility
- Swarming (honey bee), the natural means of reproduction of honey bee colonies
- Swarm behaviour, examples and mathematical models
Technology and computing
- Swarm (app), a mobile app by Foursquare
- Segmented downloading or swarming download, a more efficient way of downloading files from many peers at once
- Swarm intelligence, artificial intelligence technique
- Swarm robotics, approach to the coordination of multirobot systems
- Swarm (ESA mission), a European Space Agency satellite mission to measure Earth's magnetic field
- Swarm (simulation), multi-agent simulation package
- SWARM, a remote weapon system
- Swarming (military), an approach of using "pulses" of converging combat agents onto a target
- Swarm, software to provide clustering functionality for Docker containers
- Swarm Technologies Inc. Building a LEO satellite constellation for Internet-Of-Things (IOT) device communications.
Fiction and entertainment
Character
- Swarm (comics), Marvel Comics supervillain
- Swarm (Transformers), Transformer character
- Swarm, the name of an Air-element character in Skylanders: Giants
Literature
- "Swarm" (novelette), a 1982 science fiction novelette written by Bruce Sterling
- The Swarm (Schätzing novel), a 2004 science fiction novel by Frank Schätzing
- The Swarm (Card and Johnston novel), a 2016 science fiction novel by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston
Film and television
- The Swarm (film), a 1978 disaster film about a killer bee invasion
- Destination: Infestation, a 2007 TV film released on DVD as Swarm or Deadly Swarm
Game
- Swarm (1998 video game), action video game created by Reflexive Entertainment
- Swarm (2011 video game), an action-platform puzzle game by Hothead Games
Other
- Earthquake swarm, a series of earthquakes in one area
- Minnesota Swarm, a box lacrosse team in the National Lacrosse League
- Swarm (spirit organization), a spirit organization for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
- Swarm Development Group, an American non-profit organization
- Swarm Peak, a rock peak in the Ford Ranges, Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica
- Swarm!, an album by Torture Killer
See also
- The Swarm (disambiguation)