Picking may refer to:
- Various styles of guitar playing:
- Fingerpicking
- Flatpicking
- Hybrid picking
- Pattern picking
- Alternate-picking
- Sweep-picking
- Tremolo picking
- A gathering to pick fruit or various products
- Continental knitting, a style of knitting also known as picking
- Lock picking, the art of unlocking a lock without the original key
- Nose-picking, the act of extracting mucus and/or foreign bodies from the nose
- Skin Picking, or Dermatillomania
- In computer graphics, the task of determining which screen-rendered object a user has clicked on
- In logistics, picking refers to the task of selecting an item for shipment
- A term coined by the television show American Pickers
Famous quotes containing the word picking:
“And Death fell with me, like a deepening moan.
And He, picking a manner of worm, which half had hid
Its bruises in the earth, but crawled no further,
Showed me its feet, the feet of many men,
And the fresh-severed head of it, my head.”
—Wilfred Owen (1893–1918)
“The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.”
—Raoul Vaneigem (b. 1934)
“For every nineteenth-century middle-class family that protected its wife and child within the family circle, there was an Irish or a German girl scrubbing floors in that home, a Welsh boy mining coal to keep the home-baked goodies warm, a black girl doing the family laundry, a black mother and child picking cotton to be made into clothes for the family, and a Jewish or an Italian daughter in a sweatshop making “ladies” dresses or artificial flowers for the family to purchase.”
—Stephanie Coontz (20th century)