Dating is an activity by two humans who are exploring or are in a romantic relationship.
The term may also refer to:
- Courtship, period in a couple's relationship which precedes engagement and marriage
- Timestamp, information identifying the date and time when a certain event occurred
- Chronological dating, estimating the age of an object or linguistic artifact
- Relative dating, determining the relative order of past events
- Absolute dating, determining an approximate age in archaeology or geology
- Radiometric dating, a family of techniques used to date objects using radioactive impurities
- Dendrochronology, dating tree rings to the year they were formed