Lifting may refer to:

• Manual handling of loads
• Raising objects upwards, for example with lifting equipment
• Weightlifting, lifting weights for exercise and sport, including:
  • Olympic weightlifting, an Olympic sport that tests explosive strength
  • Powerlifting, a sport that tests limit strength
  • Weight training, a way of increasing strength
• An undesirable type of movement in the sport of racewalking
• Shoplifting, an unnoticed theft of goods from an open retail establishment
• Facelifting, a type of cosmetic surgery
• Lift, a morphism in mathematics
• Lifting theory, a notion in measure theory
• Lifting scheme (wavelets)
• Lambda lifting, meta-process that defines functions independently of each other in a global scope
• Taking an inference rule in propositional logic and adapting it for predicate logic
• Type lifting, adding the special null value to the scope of a type