Encounter (video game), released in 1984 for the Commodore 64 computer

The Daedalus Encounter, a game

Brief Encounter, a film

Close encounter in UFO theories

Cosmic Encounter, a game

Random encounter, in a game

Encounter (magazine), a literary magazine

Encounter group

Encounter Bay

Encounter (Christian event), an annual Christian worship event in Preston, UK

Encounter (Psychology)

Random Encounter, a videogame cover band based in Florida.

Encounter (album), an album of space music (sub-genre of New Age) by Michael Stearns

Encounters (anthology), a short story anthology with stories from several Australian speculative fiction authors.

Encounters (TV series), an hour-long TV series that featured real-life stories of paranormal phenomena.

The Encounter, an episode of The Twilight Zone