The word punter may refer to:
- A speculator in the stock market
- A gambler, particularly an amateur betting on horse racing or a player in the game of Baccarat
- A beginner skier or snowboarder, especially one with particularly bad style
- Someone who uses a punt (boat)
- Punter (football), a position in American or Canadian football
- The Punters, a Newfoundland traditional music group
- Punter (protocol), a file-transfer protocol
- Ricky Ponting, nicknamed Punter, an Australian cricketer
- A British, Australian and Hiberno (Irish) English colloquial term for a paying guest or customer, especially
- a patron of a public house
- a patron of a brothel
- a customer of a prostitute
- Punter (ship), a Dutch flatbottom ship type
- Australian colloquial term for voting citizens