Groom (disambiguation)

A groom (short for bridegroom) is a male participant in a wedding ceremony.

Groom or grooming may also refer to:

Hygiene and cleanliness

• Dog grooming, the care provided for a dog's physical appearance (especially its coat and nails), or specific work done to enhance its appearance for a show
• Grooming (cross country skiing), preparing cross-country skiing trails
• Horse grooming, the daily hygienic care provided for horses, or specific work done on the horse to enhance its physical appearance for a show
• Male grooming, specific work done by men to enhance their physical appearance, or daily hygiene care done by men
• Personal grooming, or preening, in humans and other animals, a hygienic activity (caring for physical appearance)
• Snow grooming, the process of preparing snow for recreational uses, such as skiing
• Social grooming, behavior between humans and other animals who live in proximity, helping bond and reinforce social structures

Indoctrination and abuse

• Sexual grooming, using non-violent means to normalize sexual abuse
  • Sex trafficking, using the "loverboy method" to recruit victims into prostitution
• Online youth radicalization, or grooming (recruiting) youth to join gangs or enact terrorism

Occupations

• Groom (profession), a person responsible for the feeding and care of horses
• Groom, one of the competitors in combined driving

In the English/British Royal Household

• Groom of the Bedchamber, later named Groom in Waiting, a junior nobleman in attendance in the King's Bedchamber
• Groom of the Chamber, a rank of courtier in the Tudor royal court
• Groom of the Great Chamber, a junior nobleman in attendance (who would customarily also serve as King's Messenger)
• Groom of the Privy Chamber, a junior nobleman in attendance in the Chamber
• Groom of the Robes
• Groom of the Stool, later named Groom of the Stole, the senior nobleman in attendance in the King's Bedchamber

Places

• Groom, Texas, a town in Carson County, Texas, United States, location of the second largest cross in the western hemisphere
• Division of Groom, a Commonwealth Electoral Division in Queensland, Australia
• Groom Lake (salt flat), a geographic feature of the United States Military Area 51
• Groom Range, a mountain range in Nevada, United States

Film and television

• The Groom, a 2016 Russian comedy film
• Groomed (film), a 2021 American documentary film
• Groomed (TV series), a Canadian reality show

Other uses

• Groom (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name)
• Traffic grooming, a technical activity in telecommunications

See also

• Bridegroom (disambiguation)
• Grom (disambiguation)