Groundwork

Groundwork or ground work may refer to:

Entertainment and media

• Groundworks, official artbook for the Japanese animation series FLCL
• GroundWorks – Hip-Hop group from South African (Ben Sharpa, Krook d' Tha Warmonga, Snaz, Gemini, and Hue Man)
• The Groundwork Theory, album by Christian rap artist Verbs
• GroundWork Records, a record label co-founded by Jennifer Korbee

Literature

• Ground Work: Selected Poems and Essays, 1970-79, book by U.S. novelist Paul Auster
• Ground Work: Before the War / In the Dark, book of poetry by U.S. poet Robert Duncan
• Ground Works: Avante-Garde for Thee, anthology of Canadian writers edited by Christian Bök
• Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals, Immanuel Kant's first contribution to moral philosophy
• Groundwork, a novel by Irish author Robert Anthony Welch
• Groundwork, a biography of Charles Hamilton Houston
• Higher Judo: Groundwork, book by Moshe Feldenkrais
• Ground Work (Yung Berg mixtape), mixtape project by Yung Berg

Martial Arts

• Judo – grappling techniques when both practitioners are on the ground
• Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu – practices and techniques originating with groundwork expert Mitsuyo Maeda
• Ground fighting, in hand-to-hand combat and mixed martial arts
• Sweep (martial arts), grappling techniques

Organizations

• Groundwork South Africa, an environmental organization affiliated to the international group Friends Of The Earth
• Groundwork UK, an environmental organisation working as a federation of Trusts in the United Kingdom

Other

• Horse training – practice used to train horses, i.e., before they can be ridden