Pickering may refer to:
Places
Antarctica
- Pickering Nunataks, Alexander Island
Australia
- Pickering, South Australia, the original name (1872–1940) of the town of Wool Bay
- Pickering Brook, Western Australia, Australia
Canada
England
- Pickering, North Yorkshire
- Pickering Beck, North Yorkshire
- Vale of Pickering, North Yorkshire
- Lake Pickering, a former lake
United States
- Pickering, Missouri
- Pickerington, Ohio
- Pickering, Pennsylvania
- Pickering Township, Bottineau County, North Dakota
- Mount Pickering, California
- Pickering Creek, Pennsylvania, a tributary of the Schuylkill River
- Pickering Passage, Washington, a strait
- Fort Pickering, Massachusetts, a 17th-century fort on the National Register of Historic Places
- Fort Pickering (Memphis, Tennessee), a Confederate fort in the American Civil War
Outer space
People and fictional characters
- Pickering (surname), a list of people and fictional characters
- Pickering Phipps, three related people in England in the 18th to 20th centuries
Schools
- Pickering College, Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
- Pickering High School (disambiguation), several schools in various countries
Sports
- Pickering FC, a Canadian soccer team
- Pickering Panthers, a Junior "A" ice hockey team from Pickering, Ontario, Canada
- Pickering Town F.C., an English football team
Other uses
- Pickering's Defense, a chess opening
- USS Pickering (1798), an American schooner
- Pickering House (disambiguation), several houses
- Pickering Operations Complex, a skyscraper on Pickering Street in Singapore
- Pickering Interfaces, a British test and measurement company
- Pickering and Company, an American phonograph cartridge manufacturer, predecessor of Stanton Magnetics
- Pickering baronets, two extinct titles, one in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia, the other in the Baronetage of England
- Pickering Medal, a New Zealand honour for promoting commercial success
See also
- Pickering emulsion, an emulsion stabilized by solid particles
- Pickering scale, a rating of astronomical seeing
- "Pickering test" in First Amendment law - see Pickering v. Board of Education
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